Doggie bagged: Benji's OK after being dumped in ditch

The Associated Press

CAMPBELLSPORT — A poodle mix named Benji is recovering after being found tied in a garbage bag and dumped in a roadside ditch.


Capt. Dean Will of the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday that a bicyclist riding in the Lake Bernice area on Monday night noticed the bag and saw it was moving, so he stopped, opened it up and found the little white dog.

Jean North, a receptionist at Wright Veterinary Service, said Benji was malnourished when he was brought in, and he couldn’t see.

“His eyes were matted shut,” she said.

But he was fed and given a haircut and has been doing well, except that he still has trouble walking, she said.

If the dog isn’t adopted, it could become an office dog, North said.

The sheriff’s department so far has no leads on who dumped the dog, Will said today.

“We’re just glad it’s alive,” he said. “How an individual could do that to an animal is really hard to accept.”

That is so sad,:( people like that make me :sick I am glad that he didnt get to hurt.

I'm just glad they aren't going to euthanize him if he doesn't get adopted, an office dog... that's so sweet!!! I got my kitty from a client who told me that she was taking the cat to the humane society b/c her landlord found out abt the cat. When I heard she was deaf, I had to take her. She is the sweetest kitty.

Poor dog. That is just disgusting that someone would do that.

OMG I hate animal cruelty.