DAVIE, Fla. — A Davie man is facing animal cruelty charges after police say he left a dog tied up with no food or water outside his mobile home, as temperatures exceeded 90 degrees.

According to court documents obtained by Local 10 News on Monday, Davie police responded to the trailer of Buech E Allen Michael Carter, 42, in the 13400 block of Southwest Seventh Court on Thursday after a nearby resident alerted them to the tethered dog.

The neighbor said she hadn’t “seen the dog’s owner for two days,” an arrest report states. According to police, the neighbor said that she had checked on the dog multiple times and never saw food or water.

Police said she told them that the dog had a “small, empty silver bowl within reach that it constantly pawed at” and said she “noticed the dog seemed distressed and was panting since it had no shade from the heat.”

In the report, Davie Police Department Officer Erinn Sarandria wrote that she saw the blue heeler mix outside, tethered with a rope “clipped to a silver choke chain around the dog`s neck.”

“The concrete within the circumference of the dog’s range of motion was covered in urine and feces,” she wrote. “A small silver bowl was within reach but was overturned and empty. I provided the dog a bottle of water, which he finished immediately. From where the dog was tethered, he had no shelter from the elements and was completely exposed.”

Police said they determined that Carter was the tenant of the mobile home and that he “had been previously investigated for a similar animal neglect issue in 2024 involving another dog left tethered in the same manner, also without access to food and water” and received several citations.

Sarandria wrote that as she investigated the situation, Carter came by.

“He said someone was supposed to come by and give the dog ‘Kai’ food and water and put him back inside. He said Kai does not usually stay outside,” she wrote. “However, when I asked him to provide me the contact information for the person who was supposed to be checking on Kai, he refused. I eventually convinced him to provide me her contact information so I could confirm his version of events but the call went straight to voicemail.”

Sarandria wrote that when she asked him about the previous case, “he simply said that dog was not his.”

She concluded that Carter “continues to have no regard for the health and safety of dogs under his care and control” and arrested him on two charges, a felony and a misdemeanor, related to animal cruelty and neglect.

As of Monday, he remained in the Broward Main Jail on a $6,000 bond.

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