Seattle police rushed to the rescue of an abandoned puppy last week after some monster dumped their dog in a garbage can in Belltown on a wicked hot day.
According to a police report, “an anonymous person” contacted an off-duty officer doing traffic control near 4th and Pike on the afternoon of July 27th and told the officer that four hours earlier, they had seen someone throw a puppy into a nearby garbage can. 
The off-duty officer informed dispatch and, with the help of two other officers, went to pull the puppy from the garbage can. “Due to the extreme heat at the time (92 degrees) and sunny, I feared for the health of the puppy,” Officer Chad McLaughlin wrote in his report. When officers pulled the puppy out of the garbage can, it “appeared listless and his skin was very hot,” the report says. “Fearing for his health, I put him in my air conditioned car and drove him to the Seattle Animal Shelter,” McLaughlin wrote. The report says the puppy was 12-16 weeks old and does not specify the breed.
The report says the shelter placed a “supervisory hold” on the puppy so that if anyone comes to claim it, they will have to “answer questions as to why the puppy was found in a garbage can.”
Photo via Flickr by JennieMarie
OMG DAT IS DE CUTEST WIDDLE PUPPEH I HAVE EVAH SEEN!
You mean the owner can get the puppy back?!? How about throwing the owner in a dumpster?
Asshole (the puppy thrower, not the puppy).
Someone waited four hours to tell the cops that a puppy had been trashed?
Can I adopt that puppy?
Can we euthanize the former owner?
hearty thanks to everyone involved in the rescue and all, but why didn’t the witness just get the puppy out himself? why did he wait four hours to get someone else to do it? why did the cop have to call, and presumably wait, for backup? and for the love of god, why would the shelter even entertain the possibility of reuniting dog with owner?
and hell yeah, that’s one cute puppy. is it THE puppy, or just a random photo?
@7—Just a random puppy.
I suspect that the “witness” is in fact the perpetrator, and after four hours he felt enough guilt to break down and tell police where they could find it.
(In my mind, that’s the only way this story adds up.)
How many times do we have to say it? Dogs are NOT babies!
And this. Is why I hate most people.
@9, you are probably right.
roger that, lola.
@10
…and babies aren’t dogs.
Good Samaritan fail.
@9 I agree with this comment. It seems like the only reasonable explanation for why the witness would wait four hours to tell someone.
As for those asking why the shelter would entertain the idea of the owner being able to pick up the puppy.. it’s also possible that it wasn’t the owner that put it in the garbage.
I remember our cats used to like to jump into garbage cans.
There’s food in them thar things.
maybe they were testing out a new “solar cooker” method?
I want the puppy.
Oh..wait…I’ve been down this road before..4 times and once down Kitty Lane…well not with the trash can.
Hope the pup finds a good home and karma bites the a-hole in the arse.
How dare they put it in the garbage can….this is Seattle…they should have recycled it.
There’s a special place in hell for people who would do something like that.
I won’t be able to sleep tonight just thinking about this.
They’re especially delicious with mashed potatoes
It may well have been a homeless person who abandoned the puppy because they quickly learned that he/she couldn’t take care of it.
Our cat was a shelter rescue as a kitten, and we learned from the shelter that she had been found in a room at the Holiday Inn, abandoned there by the guest. They told us that this happens all the time, a homeless person is able to get a room for one night and leaves the animal they thought they could take care of. Turns out they can barely take care of themselves.
Was the puppy gay?
Just making sure all SLOG stories are gay oriented.
Might have been a stolen puppy. Someone might have had it in for the puppy’s rightful owner.
Should name him Oscar.
@26. I came in here to post exactly that. Whoever adopts this puppy has an obligation to name him Oscar.
“That puppy has a really big head, hey big headed puppy why you puttin’ on airs? Thats a snobby puppy”
here doggy
I bet it’s a pit bull.
I suspect Savage.
Another alternative is that the person who called is a relative of the person who put the puppy in the trash – and had to wait until they were away from said asshole before calling for help.
My god, what an awful way to kill something!
But if the puppy was in the can in that heat, with no water, for 4 hours – that puppy’s brain has been baked. Dogs are none-to-smart to begin with [and I do love them for it], but this puppy will be very difficult to house train or teach anything. It might be too brain damaged to remember to eat.
Poor little guy, I hope he finds a good home. I love animals, it’s people I have a problem with.
Sad story.
It’s also sad that your average person has decided to care about dogs and cats well being, but don’t mind millions of land, air and sea animals being exploited and killed for no good reason other than people’s selfishness.
All animals are equal.
Think.
Go vegan.
#31, even my dog knows it would be “none TOO smart”
Hopefully they will find the jerk that did this, and they will be charged with 1st degree animal abuse.
It doesn’t say how the puppy is doing, hopefully it recovers and finds a “real” caring loving home.
Hopefully they will find the jerk that did this, and they will be charged with 1st degree animal abuse.
It doesn’t say how the puppy is doing, hopefully it recovers and finds a “real” caring loving home.
@33 I agree…they throw plenty of young “food animals” in dumpsters to dispose of them (male chiks of egg-laying chicken breeds, for example), yet only dogs are worth pulling out.
@33, 37
you’re right, we shouldn’t waste the delicious, tender meat of the puppies…. they would make some excellent bbq!
Poor pup. I hope they catch the beast who did this. I also totally agree w/ 9, the caller is most likely the freak who dumped the pup. How sick.
38: That is disgusting.
@33…I hear you.
I cry every time I pass one of those awful trucks filled with chickens in exposed crates.
I love animals – ‘specially with hot sauce!
Hot Dog!!!! Put some ketchup on that critter and bbq it.
Terriyaki Puppy. Let them boil. Help control the pet population. Put animals to sleep…permanently.
who the fuck are you people making jokes about eating dead puppies?
here’s an awful story about animal abuse and you just pile on, rather than be appropriately appalled.
you are disgusting.
Jokes??? What Jokes!!!!
Puppies taste great. If you are vegan…dont eat them. Use them for research instead.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
I’ve never really gotten why people get so much more pissed when you suggest eating an animal we consider pets. You just never get the same response when you say you could go for a BLT but pigs are so much smarter. In conclusion: I’d hit that. With some BBQ sauce.
It’s not an animal’s intelligence that we identify with. It’s its cute carnivorousness. Omnivores, herbivores, cow-eyed, wide-eyed, side-eyed creatures? Toss them in the meat wagon!
Four hours????