Dog found tied to a fence during Hurricane Milton

[Catherine]

The owner of the dog has been found and he will be charged. So there is going to be some justice for Trooper for the ordeal he went through.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-man-ar...=114829362

They might not have found the owner, but he went to the shelter and tried to reclaim him.
That tells me that he doesn't see how wrong his actions were. The dog was standing in cold water, unable to get away. The water was already up to his chest and rising. He would eventually have drowned, but it would have taken hours of struggling to survive before the water would have been too deep.
He actually thought he would get his dog back. I don't think it occurred to him that he would be charged with animal cruelty.

They need to make an example of this guy. Every time there is a hurricane or bad tropical storm people leave dogs tied up outside where they can drown in the storm surge. That is not just not okay. It has to stop happening.