Disturbing video showing a dog chained up in the back of a pickup truck on the 5 Freeway in Southern California has sparked a call to action to help the pup find a new home.
The footage, which was originally posted on Reddit, shows the dog, a pit bull named West, chained to the rack on the back of a truck traveling through Lincoln Heights, according to the California Highway Patrol. After gaining traction, the video made its way to animal rights advocate Kris Kelly, who then shared it on her own social media pages.
Within an hour, Kelly said that a volunteer at the North Central Animal Shelter in Los Angeles had called her to report that West’s owner had surrendered him to their care…