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ANIMAL CRUELTY

Pit bulls present concern for communities

Multiple deaths as a result of these attacks have been reported and various communities are calling for these dogs to be banned. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) has also issued warnings regarding these animals.…

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The dogs were kept in an outside building ‘mangy and neglected’. Image: SPCA
ANIMAL CRUELTY

More than 100 neglected, sick dogs and a pig found at animal ‘sanctuary’

A bleeding basset hound. A labrador unable to stand. A boerboel with deformed legs. This is what the SPCA discovered at a house serving as a “shelter” to more than 100 dogs, many of them neglected and ill, at Odendaalsrus in Welkom. Free…

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An Etwatwa man has been convicted of animal cruelty.Image: SPCA
ANIMAL CRUELTY

Chaining dogs can get you a criminal record, as East Rand man finds out

A 36-year-old man living in Etwatwa, Gauteng, has been found guilty in the Daveyton Magistrate’s Court of animal cruelty, for chaining and confining his dogs. The conviction was handed down on Friday, with the offence having taken place…

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