Dog tied to rail tracks recovers in W. Pa. shelter
BRADDOCK, Pa. -- A dog found tied to railroad tracks near Pittsburgh is recovering at a western Pennsylvania shelter, the Associated Press reported.
Norfolk Southern spokesman Rudy Husband says one of the company's train engineers was driving in the opposite direction Friday evening when he saw the dog tied to the tracks. The engineer called police, who briefly shut down the tracks, about 8 miles east of Pittsburgh.
The dog is now recovering at the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society, where employees are calling her Choo-Choo.
Humane Society executive director Lee Nesler says the dog recently gave birth. She is emaciated and nearly died of starvation. The society has treated her for diseases. Many people have offered to adopt her.
(The preceding Associated Press article was published October 16, 2008, by the Lebanon Daily News.)
Several of the yards I have worked at back home had stray dogs that we took in at the yard as pets...."Yard dogs"....There was Jake and Milly....
Milly was the coolest bitch in Long Beach...Every shift she would show up to greet the guys...I dont know who taught her how to do it and Ive never seen another dog do it but she would smile at you when you asked her...."Smile Milly...." and she would flare her teeth...It was the funniest thing I ever saw....
Jake was a behemoth of a dog....Big hairy bastard who would lay under the cars....I dont know how he never got cut in two...You would tie into a track and start yankin and see him come walk out from under the wheels....
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the speed on the track is 10 mph and its restricted speed, so at 10 on that blind corner they had a banner set up....