Officers: Chattanooga Man Left Dog Behind House To Die

Thanks to your help another Chattanoogan faces serious charges after abusing his dog, this according McKamey Animal Center Officers.

McKamey Officers tell us that in less than a week anonymous phone calls have helped land two people behind bars. Today they tell us that one animal owner left his German Shepard behind his house to die in the most painful conditions. We want to let you know that some of the pictures we saw were so graphic that we decided not to show them.

It's behind a house on the 3100 block of Cresent Circle that Officer Nick Wilson says he found a german shepard clinging to life this afternoon.

"The dog was very, very sick and was unable to move around from the location from where we removed the animal from," Officer Nick Wilson says.

An anonymous phone call led the McKamey Officers to Cresent Circle - the caller complaining a dog had been poisoned.

When the officers arrived they found Lime scattered throughout the yard

and tell us the german shepard most likely ingested the powder.

"It was everything she could do to get set up with her front paws up of the ground, she set up for just a brief moment," Wilson says.

Wilson says in that brief moment the officers noticed an infected abdominal wound filled with maggots, and says that's when they placed her owner, Kenneth Brady, under arrest, charging him with felony aggravated animal cruelty.

"The animal had been down in this shape for what he admitted approximately a month maybe a little longer, this animal was very very sick and needed vet care," Wilson says.

Wilson tells us that Brady says that he didn't have any money to take the german shepard to a vet and so instead he says he actually dug a hole and that's where he was going to place the dog when she died. And she did end up dying on her way to the McKamey Animal Center today.

Wilson says that Brady never tried to contact them for help and made no effort to help his dog survive.

"We're running across more and more of these cases and it doesn't get any easier to see these animals in this kind of distress because their helpless they can't tell anybody they're in pain," Wilson says.

And that's why Officer Wilson says they're cracking down on people abusing their animals - he says they have no tolerance for this kind of abuse and is asking for anyone who thinks abuse maybe going on to give them a call - he says that your phone call can be completely anonymous.

Brady is being held in the Hamilton County Jail on a thousand dollar bond.