Puppy Caught On Video Being Dumped In Midtown Reunited With Real Owner
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - Surveillance cameras catch a man dumping a puppy into a fenced yard in midtown Sacramento.
The man who lives there came home to find the dog, named Pumba, scared and alone in his backyard.
"You watch this video and you just think, who could do that?" said Andrew Singletary, who found Pumba.
Singletary came home to find a scared puppy behind this fence.
"So I'm sitting here thinking...this is odd. How did this dog get here?" he said.
So he took a look at his surveillance footage. With cameras all around his house and this is what he found: A man walking down the alley with the dog takes him around the front of the house and dumps him over the fence, leaving the puppy there as he runs off.
"This is just the most heartless thing I've seen," said Singletary.
After trying to find the owner with no luck, he turned the dog in to the front street animal shelter.
"I have no words, no words," he said.
The shelter tracked down Josh Xiong Pumba's owner, but not the person who dumped the dog. Xiong couldn't give Pumba the attention he deserved. With a tight work and school schedule he decided to give the dog up.
"I wanted him to go to a nice, happy house. Nice happy family. Everything," he said.
So he put an ad on Craigslist and thought he found the perfect person. He was guy Xiong never met before who said his name is George. Xiong says he gave the dog to George for free and now Xiong says the man he sees in the video looks like George.
"When i gave him away, tears started coming out of my eyes," said Xiong.
But never imagined what the man would do next. That same day he took the dog, he abandons it. When Xiong saw the video, he said: "my heart started pounding so fast."
But thankfully the nightmare is over. Pumba is now reunited with his owner, who says he'll never trust another person with his dog.
"He's going to be living with me until we get old," said Xiong.
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