The dog's owner said she left it in a friend's care for a week while she went away, according to the deputy dog warden supervisor. When she came back, it was dead.
Now the dog's owner, Katie Schmuck, and her friend, Jacob Goodwin - both 21 of Hamilton - are facing charges.
Both said the dog had not eaten in about three weeks, according to the deputy dog warden supervisor.
"The photos are just gruesome," Jones said in a release. "The saying, 'I wouldn't treat a dog like that,' has a new meaning after what I've seen today. It is disturbing what this poor animal endured. It basically starved to death in a small cage lying in its own excrement.
"I will never understand this type of cruelty."
WCPO.com editors decided to publish only a partial image of the dog after judging that the complete image provided by the sheriff was too disturbing.
According to the sheriff's office, a neighbor taking out the trash found the dog in the dumpster in the 3000 block of Reflections Pointe and called the dog warden.
"The dog had a collar and a tag with a phone number that led us to the owner, Katie Schmuck," said Kurt Merbs, the deputy dog warden supervisor
While Schmuck was away, Goodwin said he went to Schmuck's home approximately three times to check on the dog but never left it out of the cage, according to Merbs.
Goodwin said he found the dog dead on his third visit.
"He took the dog, dead in the cage, across the street to a dumpster and disposed of it like common trash," Jones said.
Schmuck and Goodwin were charged with cruelty to a companion animal – a misdemeanor. Their court cases are pending.
(WCPO - Feb 11, 2016)
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