After Neighbor Complaint, Police Find Emaciated Dogs Tied up and Left in Empty Apartment for Weeks

Nothing can set your neighbors against you as quickly as poor pet ownership behaviors. Failing to clean up after your pets or letting them make a ruckus at all hours are two of the biggest offenders.

When someone in an apartment in the 📍Cleveland suburb of Euclid, 🇺🇸Ohio, kept hearing the dogs in the upstairs unit barking and crying, it was no doubt annoying — but after weeks of the same behavior without any change, the person was compelled to call the Euclid 🚓Police Department.

And what officers found when they arrived at the indicated apartment unit on April 5 was heartbreaking.

The door to the unit was ajar, and they could immediately hear whining upon approaching it. In one room, they found two white dogs tied together, the leash securing them to the window.

The pit bull mixes had been left with no food or water, the floor was saturated with urine and covered in feces, and their tether was so short they couldn’t really even lie down.

It had been three weeks since the tenants had left, and no one had seen them return since then, meaning somehow the dogs managed to survive in the cruel conditions until their crying alerted the downstairs neighbor.

“We received a call from a concerned neighbor that heard these dogs barking and crying for a number of weeks,” Euclid