Tom Dart's blames animal control after his Evictions officers leave behind caged dog locked in a garage. Animal control says the Sheriff never contacted them.. The dog is now clinging to life in a shelter after spending days alone in garage with temperatures reaching 120 degrees....
A German shepherd is recovering at an animal shelter after being rescued recently by Worth police from a locked, unventilated garage when her owners left her and Cook County authorities failed to remove the dog, according to police.
Cook County sheriff's officers went to a foreclosed house in the 11200 block of Worth Avenue on July 13 to evict two residents, but the two men had already moved out and the officers padlocked and sealed the house and garage, Worth police reported.
They said a next-door neighbor called police the following day after she heard the dog's frantic barking, saw the eviction notice on the front door and realized that the dog had been left in the hot garage for at least two days by the owners and then sheriff's police.
"The eviction officers who locked up the house left her in the garage without food or water," neighbor Cynthia Villanueva said, adding that conditions in the garage were filthy.
The sheriff's department contacted Cook County Animal Control the day the officers served the eviction notice and sealed the house, according to spokeswoman Sophia Ansari.
However, a dispatcher for the animal control department, Spring Whigham, said there was no record of any calls coming into their office regarding the dog. "We didn't send anyone out because we never received a complaint," Whigham said. "We respond quickly to any calls about animals in danger or in abusive situations."
"How could anyone that was locking down a house for an eviction leave without taking the dog out?" Villanueva asked. "You could hear her barking continually. ... I just don't understand how this happened."
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