Dog found duct taped in woods
12-11-2009 By DREW KERR dkerr@poststar.com, The Post Star, USA
PROVIDENCE -- Ed Dandaraw has owned beagles all his life.
So when the Providence man spotted two brown legs protruding from a black garbage bag while hunting on his rural property off Drager Road on Sunday, he knew immediately that there were two more hidden out of sight.
What he was not prepared for, however, was the way the animal would appear once it emerged from its plastic trappings.
Duct tape, Dandaraw discovered, bound the dog from head to foot.
This beagle, Daisy, was found by a hunter in the woods of Providence, barely alive, wrapped in a garbage bag and tied up with duct tape. Police are seeking suspects in the case.
Timid, the 4-year-old animal was listless, a skeletal incarnation of its former 40-pound self.
Dandaraw said on Thursday the scene led him to believe the dog was dead, "decomposing under all of that tape."
Still, he scooped the beagle up, placed it in on the back of his four-wheeler and ushered it out of the woods.
"I picked it up and she just let out a blood-curdling scream," Dandaraw said. "She was probably just terrified."
Dandaraw said the beagle likely survived only because of a small opening in the garbage bag near its nose -- a detail that leaves him wrestling with emotion.
"What's scary is that they intentionally left the nostrils untaped so she would suffer," Dandaraw said. "It really sickened me to my stomach."
Since the discovery, a veterinarian has carefully and methodically removed the tape and outfitted the dog with a cone so it wouldn't scratch its damaged ears.
The owners, who had been looking for their wayward dog Daisy for at least two weeks, were also identified with the use of a micro-chip installed in the dog's skin and re-united.
Neighbors of Dandaraw's, their identities have not been publicly released.
Police are now looking into how the dog might have ended up bound in the woods.
Saratoga County Sheriff's investigator Rick Capasso said there are few leads in the case, but asked that anyone with information call the Sheriff's Office at 885-6761.
(Bron: http://www.poststar.com/)
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