Officials said a lot of dogs are going unaccounted for in Marshall County. 

Dogs are crossing state lines, and nobody is sure how. Director of the Marshall County Animal Shelter Cindy Braughtigan said this has been going on for a while and it needs to stop. 

In several cases, dogs are turning up at the shelter in Marshall County, which is a normal occurrence. 

But then phone calls come in, and those seemingly stray dogs actually belong to somebody from Ohio. 

Or in other cases, dogs adopted from the shelter go missing and wind up in a shelter on the other side of the river. 

One dog was found on Route 2 in Benwood that was from Ohio. 

Two others recently adopted from Marshall County's  Shelter turned up in Shadyside. 

Brautigan said just recently she found a Saint Bernard on Fork Ridge, and got a picture in her email from an  Ohio resident who was missing their dog, and it ended up being the same one. 

"He could have come across the bridge, but I seriously doubt it, and then made it all the way up that hill. My feeling is that, you know, maybe an annoyed neighbor is taking these dogs and dumping them  elsewhere," she said.

Brautigan  said there are a lot of missing dogs right now that she suspects something similar has happened to.