Abandoned puppies' ears deliberately mutilated

Brent McCabe received a nasty surprise when he went to investigate the sound of dogs yelping and found two deliberately mutilated puppies.

McCabe said he was shocked to find the dogs, which had bleeding ear stumps and were abandoned near the creek not far from his Whangarae Bay home, near Okiwi Bay in the Marlborough Sounds.

One of the crossbred dogs was tied to a tree while the other was free.

"I've never seen anything like it," he said. MORE>>

Dog fighting is alive and well in NZ :(