Warning: Graphic images – Dog doused with acid
The acid attack was truly horrific.
TWO separate cases of severe animal cruelty have left officers of the Lower South Coast SPCA disturbed.
In one case, a dog had to be put down after it was doused with acid.
Last Saturday, field officer Liesl Bolton and trainee field officer Tammy Nel found a man had thrown battery acid onto a dog which had apparently come onto his property ‘to eat my chickens and eggs’.
The acid had left a large gaping hole on top of the dog’s back and left shoulder.
Trainee officer Nel said her leg ‘felt like it was on fire’ after the dog urinated on her out of fear.
“The acid was not only eating away the dog’s flesh, but her organs inside must have been on fire,” she said.
In another case last week, the officers responded to a call to a house in Marburg.
They found a dog with a chain so tight around its neck that the metal had become embedded into its skin, leaving a severely septic wound.
“The dog, which was about eight, was in so much pain that we couldn’t touch his back and we were left with no option but to sedate it at the premises,” said officer Bolton.
“When I tried to stroke the dog, it shied away in pain, almost like it was saying: ‘don’t touch me, don’t touch me’,” said trainee officer Nel.
The wound was not treatable and the animal had to be put down.
Officer Bolton said chaining of dogs was prohibited and illegal.
Cases have been opened under the Animal Protection Act.
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