Dog Tied To Electrical Cord Gets Strangled, Saved By Man

A dog tied to an electrical cord on the side of an interstate overpass in Missouri was saved by a passing commuter Monday. David Fredman was driving to work on Interstate 70 in Independence when he spotted the dog being strangled by the cord.

"I saw what looked like a dog that was being hung over the side of some sort of power box,” Fredman told Fox 4 KC. “The cord was definitely strangling him. His feet were touching the ground, but they were barely touching the ground. He was trying to whip his head left and right but could barely move it."

Fredman called 911 and then grabbed his knife to help the canine.

“The way I found him, I just couldn’t believe somebody would do that to an animal at all," he said. "As soon as I cut him down, he couldn’t breathe. He was trying to breathe. I tried get him to walk. He couldn’t walk."

The man then took the dog to KC Pet Project, an animal shelter in Kansas City, for treatment.

The shelter discovered the dog was microchipped and his owner was looking for him since Monday morning. The dog reportedly disappeared from a home about a mile away from where he was found, Fox 4 KC reported.

The dog was reunited with his family within hours. The family is now “working hard to find how Max was taken and how he ended up hanging from that box,” the shelter wrote on Facebook. “Thanks to the quick actions by David and the power of a microchip, we were able to get Max back home safely to his family.”

Dee Vaughn, the dog’s owner, told Fox 4 KC the dog could not possibly have gone so far in just a couple of hours on his own and he suspects someone was responsible for tying the dog with the electrical cord.

“Literally you could see the imprint around his neck where they hung him," Vaughn told the station, adding that both he and Fredman are working to find who was responsible for the incident. “Thank you, David, so much," Vaughn told Fredman. "You stopped what you were doing to turn around and save my dog’s life."