Starved dog thrown down trash chute in Newark

March 29, 2011

Just one day before St. Patrick’s Day, a dog that should not technically be alive was discovered in the trash.

The dog, a red Pit bull, had been starved to the brink of death. Someone, perhaps assuming that he had finally died, put his body in a trash bag and threw him down a chute inside of a 22 story apartment complex.

Had an astute maintenance worker not been paying attention, the slight movement that the starved dog made would have been missed – the bag containing his emaciated body would have been crushed inside of the trash compactor.

Read his story in The Examiner.