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29-01-2010, 17:01
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• Argument between neighbours reported to have led to shooting
• Authorities say it could be country's worst animal cruelty case
Police today seized guns used by two New Zealand men to kill more than 30 dogs owned by a neighbour in what animal welfare authorities said could be the country's worst animal cruelty case.
Inspectors from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said it planned to file charges when it finished forensic examination of the dead dogs after the incident near Wellsford, north of Auckland.
Police were looking at firearms' registration and possible charges of reckless discharge of a gun, a spokesman, Kevin Loughlin, said.
Media reports said Russell Mendoza had confronted a neighbour, Rowan Hargreaves, complaining that one of Hargreaves' 39 dogs had killed his fox terrier. Mendoza and another man, armed with a .22 rifle and a shotgun, later returned to Hargreaves' property and shot 33 dogs, including 23 puppies and young dogs.
"It was a haunting scene of death and destruction, and I struggle to comprehend what took place there," an SPCA investigator, Sascha Keltie, said.
She said bullet entry and exit wounds to some of the dogs indicated they had not died instantly. Another inspector, Vicki Border, said the shooters seemed to be on a "frenzied mission".
SPCA inspectors, who are government appointees, are empowered to file animal cruelty charges under New Zealand law. The men could face up to three years in prison.
The SPCA's executive director, Bob Kerridge, said the case was among the worst his staff had ever seen.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/29/new-zealand-dogs-shot-dead
Some people are really insane...
• Argument between neighbours reported to have led to shooting
• Authorities say it could be country's worst animal cruelty case
Police today seized guns used by two New Zealand men to kill more than 30 dogs owned by a neighbour in what animal welfare authorities said could be the country's worst animal cruelty case.
Inspectors from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said it planned to file charges when it finished forensic examination of the dead dogs after the incident near Wellsford, north of Auckland.
Police were looking at firearms' registration and possible charges of reckless discharge of a gun, a spokesman, Kevin Loughlin, said.
Media reports said Russell Mendoza had confronted a neighbour, Rowan Hargreaves, complaining that one of Hargreaves' 39 dogs had killed his fox terrier. Mendoza and another man, armed with a .22 rifle and a shotgun, later returned to Hargreaves' property and shot 33 dogs, including 23 puppies and young dogs.
"It was a haunting scene of death and destruction, and I struggle to comprehend what took place there," an SPCA investigator, Sascha Keltie, said.
She said bullet entry and exit wounds to some of the dogs indicated they had not died instantly. Another inspector, Vicki Border, said the shooters seemed to be on a "frenzied mission".
SPCA inspectors, who are government appointees, are empowered to file animal cruelty charges under New Zealand law. The men could face up to three years in prison.
The SPCA's executive director, Bob Kerridge, said the case was among the worst his staff had ever seen.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/29/new-zealand-dogs-shot-dead
Some people are really insane...