I was completely disgusted when I heard the verdict on the worst animal cruelty case I have seen in a long time.
First, though, a little history lesson. In January, a teacher in the Eastern Cape decided to punish his dog, which had bitten his daughter on her nose, by dragging the dog behind his car for 1.5km along a tar road.
Needless to say, the poor dog suffer severe injuries, and had to be put down. Most of the skin on it’s right side had been scraped off, his tongue was ripped loose, and his eye had been cut open.
The man was arrested when the SPCA laid seven charges of animal abuse at the local police. The scary thing is that the police tried to persuade the SPCA not to lay any charges as the man was “just punishing a naughty dog”.
The SPCA wanted the maximum penalty of R60000 fine or 2 year prison sentence.
The verdict was handed down yesterday. He is to have an 18 month prison sentence, 9 months of that suspended, or the option of a R3000 fine.
That for me is disgusting.
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