SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A dog that was found with a zip tie around its snout in northern Indiana last week has found a forever home with the police officer who saved him.
South Bend Police Department Ofc. Stephanie Northcutt found the Doberman Friday, Feb. 2 on the south side of the city. She was able to coax the dog, which was wearing a leash and collar, to come to her. A bystander clipped the zip tie from his snout.
Northcutt took the dog to the South Bend Animal Resource Center, which checked the dog out and began investigating.
On Monday, the police department posted to Facebook that Northcutt had the dog, now named "Zeus," spend some time with her own dogs. Then, she officially adopted him.
Zeus is not expected to experience long-term physical effects from the zip tie.
The police department said he is the second dog Northcutt has rescued while on patrol.
"She joked that the dispatchers at St Joseph County 9-1-1 should stop sending her to animal calls because she will soon run out of room at her house!" the department wrote.
Northcutt also announced that she was sponsoring two adoptions at SBARC after reading the community's outpouring of support after the rescue. Details about those adoptions will be announced at a later date, the department said.
The investigation into how Zeus was abandoned is ongoing.