After a couple reported finding a dog tied to railroad lines behind their house over the weekend, Spartanburg County Animal Control is investigating to determine who is responsible.
A few miles off Highway 221 in Enoree, the Winkelman’s have a home near the railroad lines.
Dan Winkelman said that he was going down his driveway on Saturday when he heard the barking of a dog.
“However, this dog, it sounded like you know what it’s like when a dog howls frantically?’
Dan Winkelman provided clarification.
“And that was the case.
It was coming from an area where there were no houses, and I was the only one who heard it.
“Where there’s nothing but forests.”
Dan Winkelman claims that his curiosity got the better of him, and he decided to stroll over to the railroad lines to find out what was going on.
I saw a dog simply sitting in the midst of the train tracks on the right as I glanced down to the right,” Winkelman said. “There were no humans nearby at the time.”
Upon closer inspection, Winkelman discovered that the dog was not stuck at all but instead had been entrapped.
He said that someone had attached his leash to the railroad rails and abandoned him there to die.
“There’s no getting around it.
“It wasn’t simply a matter of the dog getting himself into that situation,” Winkelman said.
“Those were knots that humans had made.”
And I attempted to untie it, but the knots had been tightened so tightly that I was unable to do so.”
“Of course, I was enraged when he came back and informed me that this poor puppy had been chained to the railroad tracks,” Dan Winkelman’s wife, Jennifer, said. “I hoped we could track down the individual immediately away.”
Jennifer Winkelman said that she attempted to transfer the dog to local animal care facilities several times but was unsuccessful each time.
That’s when she went to Facebook for assistance, which, according to Winkelman, was ultimately effective.
On the other hand, Jennifer Winkelman has said that she is now afraid of her surroundings and the prospect of finding out who may have done something like this.
How can you explain to someone that they felt okay allowing this animal to die? What is their mentality?”
Jennifer Winkelman was the one who inquired.
We get enraged because we wish we had seen someone strolling down that street, but we didn’t see anybody. However, we would have been delighted to have tracked down this individual and, at the very least, called the authorities.
That was a terrible thing for them to do.”
Spartanburg Animal Control has requested your assistance in identifying the individual responsible.
In the words of Jamie Nelson, Director of Environmental Enforcement for Spartanburg County, “Enoree is a beautiful tiny town where people know their neighbors.”
“As a result, they probably had a very decent notion who the dog belonged to.”
Animal Control, according to Nelson, will continue its investigation into the incident. Besides that, Nelson added, “we’ll go back over some of our previous calls to see if we can find anything that fits up with the K-9 itself.”
There have been concerns about “any type of neighbors, dog roaming wild, or issues in that approximate vicinity.”
After being rescued on Monday, he was taken to Operation Care in York, South Carolina, where he was microchipped and vetted before being adopted.
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