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A heartbreaking video posted by a resident in West Virginia appears to show a dog being abandoned on the side of the road. WSAZ reports the video shows someone who was driving a van dumping a dog on the side of a road near Milton before driving away. The dog runs after the van as it continues down the road. "I just don't know how anybody could do that," Bob Edmonds, who captured the video, said.Edmonds posted the video to Facebook, where it has been viewed more than 150,000 times. Stephanie Elswick, a volunteer rescue worker, was so bothered by the video that she went out looking for the dog and happened to spot him."It was a needle in a haystack, and I got really lucky," she said.Elswick spotted a Labrador that looked like the one from the video, tied up in someone's yard."I asked if it was their dog," she said. "They said, 'No.' They'd found him in the road and tied him up to keep him safe."Elswick hopes if anyone else finds they can no longer care for their animal, they take the proper measures to find the pet a new home."Just don't throw them out in the road like this to fend for themselves," Elswick said. "He deserves better...Now he's gonna get that chance."Elswick took the dog to Huntington Animal Control and plenty of people have already expressed interest in adopting him.As for the driver of the van, a man called WSAZ and claimed his girlfriend was the one seen driving the vehicle. He reportedly said the dog followed her home and she was trying to return the animal to the location where it began following her.Animal control officers continue to investigate.