Dog with suitcase offered over 100 homes

An animal charity has been inundated with calls from people offering a new home to a dog found abandoned at a railway station with a suitcase filled with his belongings.

Kai was discovered tied to a railing outside Ayr station on Friday accompanied by the case containing items including a pillow. The shar-pei crossbeed is now being cared for at the Scottish SPCA’s centre in Glasgow, with the charity keen to trace his owner.

A spokeswoman said they had received more than 100 calls yesterday from the public interested in offering Kai a new home. The dog was sold on the Gumtree website in 2013 and the charity is appealing for information to help trace whoever bought him.

Scottish SPCA inspector Stewart Taylor said: “We contacted the owner registered to the microchip, who stated they had sold Kai on Gumtree in 2013. Unfortunately they could not tell us the address of the person who bought him.