New York: Lauren Amaya, 21, put her dog inside a cage and abandoned it, say police

NEW YORK -- Her picture melted people’s hearts. The Ontario County Humane Society on August 23rd sent out a picture of a dog that had been left abandoned in a cage on a porch in Farmington, with a note asking that the finder to give the terrier mix a good home.

Now an update :  A tip lead to the arrest Tuesday of 21 year old Lauren Amaya  of Farmington on a charge of Animal Abandonment.

She told officers that the terrier mix didn’t get along with another dog she had at home.

So she put the poor dog inside a kennel and abandoned it.

She will go to Farmington Town Court in the near future to answer for her alleged crime.

BETTER FUTURE FOR THE DOG

The dog will have a good home soon enough. Ontario County Humane Society Chief William McGuigan tells Finger Lakes News Radio they have 15 families anxious to adopt that female terrier mix.

(Finger Lakes Daily News - September 6, 2017)