WTH!!!! Dog made to wear a DIAPER after neighbor in apartment below complained that it was urinating onto his patio

A phone cord was tied tightly around the hound's mouth and nose to stop it from whining, but this was then replaced with a thick rubber band

A dog had its jaw bound with a rubber band and a diaper taped to its hind legs after a neighbor complained it had been left on a small balcony.

The dog had been outside for three days and urine and feces had been falling onto the patio below at a Houston condo complex, it has been claimed.

According to a post on an animal rescue Facebook page, the neighbor told the man living above him: 'Hey, you need to actually walk your dog. You've left him on that wood-plank floored porch for the past three days, and the dog's p*** and everything else is dripping down on my head when I'm sitting on my patio below.'

The following day, the dog was seen with a diaper attached to its legs with duct tape, which was left on for several days.

A phone cord was tied tightly around the hound's mouth and nose, to stop it from whining, but this was then replaced with a thick rubber band.

 

 The dog had a band tied around its jaw and was left outside on the balcony at a condo complex in Houston

The author of the Facebook post - a private investigator - wrote: 'Not only that, but when my girlfriend climbed up the side of the building to get these photos of the dog, it was learned that the poor guy has a huge, untreated and abscessed gash across its back and leg.

'The dog had no food or water dish visible.'

Neighbors claim the dog has a broken or badly injured leg and it is believed there are two pit bulls in the property also.

A group of angry residents contacted the Harris County Sheriff's Department and demanded a deputy be dispatched.

In an audio purportedly of a conversation with an officer, he can be heard saying: 'It's not his dog to make that decision. He's talking to the owner of the dog so everything is being taken care of.

'Tell everybody on Facebook, don't worry, everything is being taken care of and they'll stop messaging me.'

A petition has been signed by more than 4,000 people calling for the dog to be rescued and justice to be brought against those responsible.