New Zealand Dog News

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January 04, 2006

Cruel owners abandon dog

The new year has been an unhappy one for a large unwanted, nameless labrador-cross, found apparently abandoned and tied to a lamp-post. Yesterday he was languishing at Christchurch's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) shelter, awaiting an uncertain fate.

SPCA animal inspector Jenny Rudd said the arthritic dog was found on New Year's Eve tied to the lamp-post in Northwood, Christchurch. He was left with an icecream pottle to drink from.
Rudd said the SPCA and the Christchurch City Council had received dozens of phone calls from people worried that their neighbours had gone away without making arrangements for the care of their animals. (click on title to read more)

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