5-month-old Pit Bull tied to truck and dragged down highway (photos are showing recovery)

[joeybee12]

The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Trooper's abuser(s) has been raised to $5,000. Please call 314-647-4400 with any tips in this case.

Following surgery performed last week to clean and further close open wounds and assess the possibility of saving Trooper’s right front leg, Dr. Mark Wright, director of Shelter Medicine for the Humane Society of Missouri, said he continues to be guardedly optimistic about the possibility of saving the dog’s leg.

Trooper is eating and drinking normally and he is walking on his own several times a day. Although his right front leg was severely injured, we see some improvement that gives us hope we may be able to save it. The puppy still faces 6-8 weeks of additional treatment and rehabilitation and the threat of infection is ever present.

We are doing everything we can to support his recovery but, in cases of incredible trauma like this, the situation can quickly change. Trooper’s got a lot of great spirit and we are all pulling for him to make a full recovery.

http://www.hsmo.org/news/2500-reward-offered-in-puppy.html

[arthritisR_US]

1. That poor little pup. Damn, some people's inhumanity

just makes me sick

[City Lights]

2. Absolutley heartbreaking.

Sometimes humans really, really suck.

I hope he pulls through, and hope they find the asshole(s) that did this.

[LiberalLoner]

6. +1

[ceile]

3. poor baby.

sick fucks. I hope they catch them.

[liberal N proud]

4. Where it Mitt?

I really think people who do this, should get a little taste of their own medicine.

How crewel!!!

[Whovian]

5. I so hope they catch the monsters responsible for this

and make them face justice.

[magical thyme]

7. may the vile, despicable, subhuman scum that did this spend an eternity

and I do mean and eternity, burning in hell.

Sometimes I wonder about living in Maine, and the awful things that have been done to me here. But then I see a story like this and am reminded that if any scum tried something like that up here, not only would the system throw the book at them, they probably wouldn't last long inside or out of prison.

[magical thyme]

8. oh, the poor driver who found him

I can't imagine the horror.

"Police and the Humane Society of Missouri Animal Cruelty Task Force were dispatched Wednesday, November 21 after a driver on Interstate 55 pulled over and found Trooper tied to the back of his truck.

The driver was very distraught and said he did not know the dog or how it became tied to his vehicle."

http://www.ksdk.com/rss/article/350701/3/Puppy-dragged-behind-truck-progressing-

[joeybee12]

9. I'm making a vow now to always check the back of my car...

before driving off...just in case.