Andrea Rosebrock 
Unbelievable! Why would someone do this to a dog? To any living creature? Seems the dogs owners moved out of the Gaven Street house and left this poor dog chained up in the garage to starve and die!
Tom Hayden from animal control says, “We’ve seen some emaciations but not any as drastic as him.”
Hayden said that the dog could have spent up to a month chained in the garage without food, that it’s a miracle he even survived. This dog should weigh in the 40 lb range, he weights 22 lbs. As you can he he is little more than skin and bones.
This past Saturday new tenants that had moved into the home heard noises coming from the garage and that’s when they found ‘Jon’ as the dog has been named, the called animal control and the dog was taken into their custody.. At this point no one know who left the dog there.
Now, authorities are looking for the person responsible, while nursing the dog back to health.
Hayden says, “We hope that being on the air people will seeing the dog maybe identify him as perhaps somebody they recall having that dog.”
In the meantime, they’re giving Jon some exercise time in the backyard, and feeding him a special diet that will help him gain weight in a healthy way.
Hayden says Jon is very special: “His personality is one he deserves the breaks today. He’s looking for a good home. He’s very loving. He just loves people and wants to be up here and enjoy people. He’s been around other pets. Other dogs inside the kennel he has no aggressive behavior towards them, and he just likes attention and love. He’s very sweet.”
He’ll be ready to go home with a new family in a week or two, when he is back to a healthier weight.
If you know anything about this case or want to adopt Jon, contact the animal control office. (14 WFIE)
Animal Care & Control Shelter
815 Uhlhorn Street
Evansville, IN 47710
Phone: (812) 435-6015
Fax: (812) 435-6273
TDD/Hearing Impaired (812) 436-4925
Superintendent: Tom Hayden
If you have any information, please help! Contact the animal control office. No living creature should be treated in this cruel and inhumane manner!
I’m going to have to stop reading these posts. I can’t bear what people are capable of doing. This so-called owner needs to be locked in a garage for a very long while without food. Problem is they don’t seem to learn anything from it. Or feel shame or remorse. How could this guy (I assume), sleep at night? I can’t sleep at night wondering how many animals are needlessly suffering right now.
I was just thinking the same thing as Lian. I read this website every day, and every day I’m more horrified than the day before because of the things that people willingly and knowingly do to such beautiful creatures. I truly believe that dogs are proof of the existence of God. I am blessed to share my life with two lab mixes, and I would give my life for either one of “my girls” and would go to the ends of the earth to find anyone who ever hurt them. People who are capable of such cruelty have to be sociopaths in the making – no conscience at all.
Lian and Jody, I agree and understand. Everyday it breaks my heart as I read these stories and see the pictures of man’s inhumanity to man’s best friend. Like you Jody, I have two pups and I love them dearly and just the thought of them being hurt or in pain would kill me. I cannot imagine what could ever make ‘people’ do the things to dogs and animals that they do.
It is my hope that by bringing these stories together for people to see, that I can raise the awareness of what people are capable of, not that I think it comes as much of a surprise. But if by pushing this in people’s faces, it can awaken one person to make a difference, if it can save some lives and ease some pain, then it is worth the heartbreak I go through everyday writing this and bringing it to the attention of those who read it! I hope you share it and tell others to read it to and get the word out.
We need stronger laws and harsher punishments for people who perpetrate these cruelties on the defenseless and innocent!