Heartbreaking surveillance footage shows the cruel moment a puppy was abandoned by a car in a California parking lot before desperately trying to chase down its owners.
The three-month-old German Shepherd pup is seen being dropped out of a car door at the Country Living Mobile Home Park in Fresno on Thursday.
The sweet black dog with pointy ears first looks around in confusion before watching the vehicle speed away.
The as-yet-unnamed animal then follows the car through the parking lot and down the street in desperation not to be left behind.
A witness from the mobile home community called the Fresno Animal Center, animal resource officer Rudy Pina told KSEE.
The three-month old puppy was abandoned in the Country Living Mobile Home Park in Fresno on Thursday
The black German Shepherd is now available for adoption from the Fresno Animal Center
Pina said the mobile home’s management were able to catch the dog safely and care for her before animal control officers arrived.
‘Luckily, the mobile home park management was very adamant about securing the dog on their own, which we’re very thankful for and which was able to have a great outcome for the animal,’ Pina explained.
‘Unfortunately, our animal control department responds to animal abandonment calls every single week in the city of Fresno,’ he said.
According to the shelter the puppy is very friendly and available for adoption immediately.
It is a misdemeanor to willingly abandon an animal under California law and a report has been filed with the local police, according to Pina.
It comes just days after another devastating abandonment of a Bull Terrier in Long Beach, California.
An onlooker captured the moment the dog owner threw the dog out of their Lexus and drove away.
A food delivery driver behind the black sedan with no tags recorded the heart-wrenching scene as the dog hopelessly chased after his owner as they sped off.
It comes just days after another devastating abandonment of a Bull Terrier in Long Beach, California
An onlooker captured the moment the dog owner threw the dog out of their Lexus and drove away
Destiny Gomez, 24, a woman who finds homes for stray pets saw the video and messaged the delivery driver.
‘When I watched that video, it broke my heart. I could not stop crying. I could not keep the dog out of my mind,’ Gomez told NBC Los Angeles in an interview.
After posting the video to Instagram to appeal to her vast network of dog loving followers, she got a tip telling her where the dog might be.
‘We also got coordinates of streets like where someone saw him, so they were like, «Can you go there?»’ Gomez explained.
The hints from the amateur canine sleuths following Gomez’s Instagram led Gomez’s boyfriend right to the neighborhood where the dog was dumped. Hours later, he found him safe and sound.
After making sure the dog was safe, fed and groomed, Gomez renamed him Chico and found him a foster parent in nearby Palos Verdes.
Now Gomez is trying to find Chico a ‘forever home.’
