One Sick Puppy: Alleged Dog Abuser Found

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UPDATE, FRI, 4:50 PM: 18-year-old Allen Frederick was not happy to see us after his arrest Friday afternoon by Animal Control officers. He admitted to tying up the boxer mix and throwing it out his car window. Frederick says the dog was whining Monday night and it made him angry. He says he tried to throw the puppy in the creek, but missed. Tips from the community led officers to question Frederick. Truck driver, John Long, found the dog early Tuesday morning, and freed him from the ropes. Long and his wife, Amy are picking up the puppy from the humane society on Friday with plans to adopt the dog. Frederick is being held on a $2,500 full cash bond on animal cruelty charges. Reporter: Shannon Samson New Media Producer: Rachel Beavin A puppy is rescued after being found hog-tied and left for dead on a Henderson bridge. A truck driver on his way to work spotted the dog and cut him loose early Tuesday morning. Now, the rescuer and his wife may become the dog's new owners. John Long found the dog on a bridge on Rock Road, just a few yards away from busy Highway 60. John's wife Amy says it was a sad scene, "It looked like somebody tried to toss him over the bridge, but had missed and he was laying on the bridge and John drove up and saw him."Animal Control Officer Mark Oakley describes the dog's condition, "When he was found, he was tied up with this so tight that the guy literally had to cut it off. It was cutting the circulation off. It was around his mouth. I mean, there was no... He was left for dead is what he was left for."But he didn't die. The boxer-mix is actually thriving at the Henderson Animal Shelter. In fact, he seems pretty healthy, not to mention housebroken. Amy Long says he is a good boy, "He's very well-mannered, very well-tempered. You can tell him to sit and stay."That's what's so confounding about this case: How could someone feed a puppy, train him and then hog-tie and dump him?Officer Oakley can't make sense of it, "If they didn't want him, there's no sense in this. They could have called us, we could have come and got him."Oakley plans to charge this person with animal cruelty, which carries a one year jail sentence and a $500 fine. The Longs don't feel it's enough. Long says, "For this puppy to be no more than three months old and to be as well-mannered as he is, there's no way that someone with any heart, any feeling, any caring whatsoever could have done this to a dog and be any part of a human."The animal shelter will keep the puppy for 10 days and then Amy and John hope to take him home and name him Lucky. One tip has already come into Animal Control. If it's true, the puppy's name is Lucky and the owner was trying to get rid of him because her new apartment didn't allow pets. link:http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=5817738&nav=3w6o