Photo captures a dog being dragged a in cage behind a speeding car

Via NYDailyNews

This alarming picture of a dog being pulled behind an SUV during a trip Saturday on a Georgia highway was snapped at 70mph.

Nicole Hubbard said she was riding along I-95 in the Peach State with her boyfriend when they spotted a dog in a small airline crate attached to the rear bumper of a Dodge Durango shortly before noon.

“We were riding back from a family vacation,” Hubbard, an animal control officer from South Carolina, told the Daily News on Wednesday.

“We thought, ‘Surely, they don’t have a dog in the back of it,’” she said. “But when we got up next to it, there the dog was.”

Hubbard alerted the state highway patrol, who told her an officer would be dispatched to stop the vehicle.

“We stayed behind them, and no officer ever came,” she said, adding that a temperature gauge in her car reported it was 94 degrees outside.

“(The temperature) was climbing the whole time,” Hubbard said.

The concerned animal lover called police again to get an update, but was told that cops couldn’t respond.

“They said they just don’t have an officer to send,” Hubbard recalled.

So the determined couple waited about two hours until the caged pup crossed the South Carolina line, where she called the state’s highway patrol.

“They were wonderful,” said Hubbard, who works with the Oconnee County Sheriff’s Office.

An operator kept Hubbard on the line until a highway cop was dispatched to pull the SUV over. It was not clear if the driver was issued a summons.

People ain’t isht…

Image via Nicole Hubbard