A dog found tied to a pole and abandoned at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson International Airport will soon have a new place to stay.
Airport officials found the dog on Thursday.
“She was tied up and sitting under a Mercedes. She was covered in dirt, obviously for a couple of hours. People probably walked past her for hours. They probably didn’t take it seriously,” Khern Forde, Hartsfield-Jackson landside operations supervisor, said.
Shortly after receiving the call, Forde rode to the scene and called a K-9 unit. He said the dog had a collar, but no tag.
Forde and APD officers named the pit bull Daily.
He believes the owner might have left the dog there, hoping that someone would find her. He said she’s roughly a year and a half old and appears to be in great health.
“Everyone was playing with her as soon as we untied her. It was sad because she’s the sweetest little thing,” Forde said.
He has since taken in the dog and says she has been keeping him busy ever since.
“She’s not an older dog that just wants to sit and relax, she has a lot of life in her,” he said.
Forde said he has no interest in trying to find the dog's owner. He says there are different ways to go about putting a dog up for adoption and this wasn’t one of them.
“You had your time with her, you didn’t value her life because you left her at a parking deck. I don’t need to find you because I may look at you different. I may charge you,” he said.
Forde said he would have kept Daily himself, but his girlfriend ruled against it.
“My girlfriend was like, ‘You want to do what? No, not gonna happen,'” he said laughing.
Forde already has three dogs of his own, but he said APD officer Tina Cunningham fell in love with Daily at first sight and will take her in later Friday evening.
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