Me. Rika Marx was hewig ontsteld omdat haar pragtige bul terriër, Mieshke, vergiftig is.

“Sy het vroeër hierdie week een nag erg geblaf en ek wonder of dit nie dieselfde mense is nie.”

Me. Marx meld dat haar hond baie beskermend was teenoor die gesin en ook kwaai teenoor vreemdelinge.

Nadat hulle die oggend die hond gekry het, het hulle gereël dat hul lieflinghond op ’n plaas begrawe word. Hulle weet dus nie watter gif gebruik is nie.

• Daar word gewoonlik die vinnigwerkende gif, Temik (ook Two Step genoem), of ’n vermenging daarvan wat Aldicarb bevat, gebruik om honde te vergiftig.

• In die meeste gevalle word honde stil gemaak om motorfietse in die omgewing te steel. In baie gevalle volg daar na vergiftigings inbrake in die omgewing.

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