Dumping of animals on increase
She immediately phoned Ms Cathy Schutte from Home4Paws. Schutte said that in this month alone, the shelter took in 38 abandoned puppies and dogs
LYDENBURG – There has been an increase in the callous dumping of dogs and puppies in and around town. On Saturday just after 15:30, Ms Thalita van Greunen phoned the newspaper after she and Mr Deon Broekman from Rapid Response found seven puppies that had been dumped in the field near their house.
Van Greunen said her mother asked her whether her dogs escaped from the yard, as she could hear noises in the field across from their house in Joubert Street. “I told my mother that my dogs were safely in the backyard. When I went to investigate, I found four pups in the field. We went again to check and discovered another three puppies. This is lousy to say the least.”
She immediately phoned Ms Cathy Schutte from Home4Paws. Schutte said that in this month alone, the shelter took in 38 abandoned puppies and dogs. “Most of them are dumped or left behind in the yards when the owners move. I really don’t know what to do anymore. It is not even Christmas yet.”
Despite the fact that dogs and puppies are being dumped in and around town, several posts still surface on many Facebook pages for “Pups looking for a good home”.
Van Greunen said that it was unclear how long the pups had been in the field. “They were extremely thirsty. They didn’t even eat the dog pellets we gave them, but drank two bowls of water.”
Schutte returned to the field on Monday morning and made another gruesome discovery. She stumbled across a plastic bag filled with animal bones.
Home4Paws currently have 34 puppies and 28 dogs in need of re-homing. The shelter is also in desperate need of puppy food for the pups.
If anyone is willing to assist the shelter, please contact Cathy Schutte on 082-462-5754.
• In another incident, a resident from Lydenburg who wishes to remain anonymous, visited the Steelburger/Lydenburg News’ offices on Friday, bringing along with her two small kittens in a basket. She found the kittens, which are a few days old in a deserted house in Viljoen Street. The woman said she had to pick something up at the house and was astounded when she found a lot of cats roaming in the backyard of the house. Two dead cats where lying in front of the house, she assumed that one was the mother of the two little kittens.
She has now adopted the kittens and is feeding them with a little bottle. When the newspaper went to investigate this, the cats were not there.
