It ’s a really good thing Dave Carlson look in the dumpster before emptying it into his truck .
Dave Carlson was void dumpsters into his hand truck on the east side of Columbus , Ohio , earlier this month when he expect into a bin outside an flat complex and " date a face looking at me . "
It was a puppy , likely apit bullmix of some kind , with a brown - and - clean case lay next to a cast away Chewy delivery box . He was frightened .
Photo: Courtesy of Dave Carlson
" He did not wish the randomness of the hand truck , " Carlson , a scraps operator with the Columbus Department of Public Service , tell apart Daily Paws .
He had a right reason . The tacky front - load hand truck would have go up the dumpster off the ground and discharge it into the truck ’s bed . The puppy , sitting on top of the garbage , belike would n’t have pull round .
Carlson called for help , and Logan Sieg , a refuse collection supervisory program , arrive at the apartments . From the back of a cartridge truck , he enter the folderol - filled bin and deployed his secret weapon .
" I lured him in with some cracker and finally picked him up , " Sieg enjoin .
They brought him back to a public works post , where they got thedehydrated - appear pup some water and he consumed a few more peanut vine butter cracker — the only affair they had for him to eat . He seemed to be experience better in the 10 or so minute he spent there .
" It was almost like he was glad to be out run around , " Sieg says .
He was able-bodied to sit when Sieg asked , so the pup had likely belonged to someone . Unfortunately , his positioning in the dumpster indicated he was left there by a human . He ’s too small and the walls of the dumpster were too high for him to get there by himself .
" It ’s just brutal and inhumane , " Sieg suppose .
" He was unquestionably put there , " Carlson bring .
Thanks to his saver , he was not only plucked from the dumpster . He ’s now on his way to a much happier living after theFranklin County Department of Animal Care and Controlpicked the 6 - month - old dog up from the public works place .
Last calendar week , the puppy — named Riley — was on his path to his unexampled kinsperson , where he ’s doing " great , " the Franklin County Dog Shelterwrote on Facebook .
" Together , we can make a big conflict in the lives of those who can not verbalize for themselves , " the shelter said .
