Would you act if you see a suffering animal?
No animal should be kept chained , especially not an innocent dog. But apparently some heartless person decided to place an enormous heavy chain around a stray dog’s neck.
It was a sight that broke one man’s heart when he saw the dog — but now this pitbull could inspire a true change in how animals are treated.
Robert Riojas, from Oklahoma City , was reception when he got an alert that somebody was on his front lawn. When he visited investigate, he discovered a pitbull… dragging an enormous heavy metal chain behind her.
The 30-pound chain was padlocked round the dog’s neck, and Robert could see what proportion suffering it had been causing.
“It’s huge,” Robert told KFOR. “It was so aggressively tight on this dog that it had been digging into her skin.”
“I don’t see how anyone are often that cruel, that inhumane, that cold heartedness.”
Since pitbulls have an unfair reputation for being aggressive, it’s possible that somebody put the dog chained thinking he would attack otherwise. But Robert found the dog to be sweet and shy. He and his family pet the dog and gave her treats.
“She was amazing,” Robert said. “Everyone that was walking in, she was licking on them, getting on the brink of them, being friendly.”
Robert couldn't look after the dog, so he brought her to the Oklahoma City Animal Welfare. But while he couldn’t give the dog a home, he did take steps to make sure no dog would suffer like this again.
He discovered that padlocking a dog like this was legal in Oklahoma, and wanted to vary that.
So he reached bent Oklahoma state representative Mickey Dollens with the story, and therefore the politician was equally surprised there was no such law: “I was very surprised and alarmed to seek out how few laws there are on the books that address animal cruelty in Oklahoma,” he told KFOR.
Dollens is now drafting an animal cruelty bill to deal with this issue: “There’s no law on the books that says you can’t chain a dog up without a collar, proper tether, and that’s something that we would like to deal with .”
He says that chaining up a dog could lead on to suffocation, and encouraged citizens to rescue a dog if they might .
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