The Saratoga County Sheriff's are looking for new leads that can help them solve an animal cruelty case after an area hunter made a disturbing discovery in a remote section of woods. Our Dayana Perez has the story.

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"I decided to go down on one of my swamps right off the backside of my property that I had not been in three years and I decided to go in there to try to push a nice deer out, a buck out," Dandaraw said.

But that fun filled day quickly turned gruesome as he made a disturbing discovery.

"I saw a black bag lying on the ground. It was a plastic bag and something was moving inside the bag," Dandaraw said.

That something turned out to be a dog wrapped in duct tape with its front paws bound together and just enough space around its nose to breathe.

"When I first saw that dog, the first thought was how can anybody do this to this dog? But again, the dog was barely moving, so I did not think it was going to survive," Dandaraw said.

Miraculously, the four year old Beagle, named Daisy, is alive, thanks to Dandaraw's quick thinking. He and his hunting buddies called police and carried Daisy to his vet, where she was treated for her wounds.

"They cut all the tapes off it and gave it all the various shots," said Dandaraw.

Its turns out Daisy's owners had been looking for her for nearly three weeks after disappearing from their home.

Daisy is much better now. She's slowly recovering and is back with her owners as police try to find leads to solve the case. As for Dandaraw, he says he's lucky he was in the right place at the right time.

"This one section of swamp, I just don't go into it because it has so much water in it. For some reason, through divine intervention that day, told me to go in that swamp and found that dog. That dog would have not survived probably another 24 hours," Dandaraw said.