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GEORGE NEWS - We are well into December and most of us are starting to switch off and unwind.
Unfortunately, for staff and volunteers at the Garden Route SPCA, this is the time of year when they experience many horrid cases of animal abuse and neglect.
One such incident took place 120km from George on a farm in Avontuur, in the Langkloof. Senior inspector Salomé Bruyns was called out after a dog was beaten to death with a pickaxe and stabbed with a knife on Tuesday 6 December.
According to Bruyns the dog allegedly bit a man the day before and after he returned from hospital the next day, he beat the dog to death with a pickaxe and stabbed it. The man who beat the dog is not the dog's owner.
"The dog was on a chain and couldn't even run away," said Bruyns.
A case of animal cruelty has been opened with the police.
"The dog died of severe trauma to the brain as a result of multiple blunt force trauma to the skull. There was also blunt force trauma to the front legs and the torso, and stab wounds to the right front leg.
"When the owner phoned us and told us about the incident, I drove there and back, more than 240km, to collect the body in order to do a proper investigation and post mortem. This animal suffered a painful violent death, and we will not be leaving it there," said Bruyns.
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