A Sheboygan man faces charges alleging that he abandoned an emaciated pit bull in an alley during this week’s snowstorm.

  (Photo courtesy of Sheboygan Press) Police say 29-year-old Chouncey Love left the sickly dog tied to a stake in the alley but a nearby resident saw it and called authorities.

Police reported the dog had frostbite, but the manager of the shelter where it’s being treated said the injuries are believed to be pressure sores from being confined in a small area.

The dog is reported to be recovering well.

A criminal complaint says Love told police the dog belongs to a friend he hadn’t seen for a month, and he left the dog hoping someone would rescue it.

Update 2/27/09:  Love was sentenced to sixty days in jail for putting an already emaciated pill bull out in a snowstorm which dumped ten inches of snow that day.

Love was also ordered to pay restitution of $2,731 that was spent by the Sheboygan Humane Society to nurse the pit bull back to health. The pit bull weighed only twenty-six pounds when rescued and could hardly stand up. The body score for the dog at the time it was rescued was at 1 out of a score of 1 to 9. Sheboygan County Humane Society manger Carey Payne said that for a healthy dog, the body score should be around 4or 5.

A Sheboygan judge ordered the sixty-day sentence for the misdemeanor count of intentionally abandoning the dog and for bail jumping.

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