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On Thursday, January 6, the Animal Welfare Society of SA received and responded to a very serious complaint regarding three grossly abused and neglected dogs living at a proverbial “house of horrors” in New Woodlands, Mitchells Plain.
The complainant alleged that an elderly woman said, “All the dogs must die and nobody must give them food or water.”
Her grandchild was convinced that these were not idle threats. Having witnessed the ongoing pain and suffering of the dogs for too long and knowing full well that the rest of her family will resent and ostracise her for reporting the plight of the dogs, she bravely picked up the phone and sought The Animal Welfare Society of SA’s help.
When Trainee Inspector Sivuyile Kilwa arrived at the property, he found all three dogs cringing on a tatty blood-spattered couch in the backyard.
He noticed that the eldest dog of the trio had a severe neck wound that almost penetrated her trachea and that one of the younger dogs had half of her tail amputated. The third dog was severely traumatised but appeared unharmed.
The dogs had no shelter and there was one empty bowl lying in the yard that may have been their shared food or water bowl. The occupants of the residence vehemently denied ownership of the dogs or any wrong doing.
This allowed Sivuyile to immediately seize all three dogs who are now in the Animal Welfare Society of SA’s care receiving treatment and experiencing kindness for the first time in their miserable lives.
“We have since established that the dogs are a little family group comprised of Mum and her two puppies from separate litters. We have successfully removed the elastic hair scrunchy that someone cruelly placed around the adult female dog’s neck and later today we will surgically remove most of the other dogs tail,” says the Animal Welfare Society of SA.
The unharmed puppy is still too petrified to venture out of her enclosure and is receiving extensive one-on-one therapy.
The Animal Welfare Society of SA said that to see the sight of her cowering in the corner of one of their staff showers yesterday, trembling with fear was not only heartbreaking, but a clear indication of the extent of the violent abuse that was inflicted upon her and her family for all of her life.
“Today she is curled-up on the couch in the Animal Care Centre and has ventured a few peeps at her caregivers. Whilst our Nursing and Animal Care Centre teams tend to their every need our Inspectors are busy gathering further evidence to ensure a rock solid case and successful prosecution of one of the meanest individuals we have ever had to pursue,” the Animal Welfare Society of SA concluded.
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