The grisly sight of this young German shepherd dog, hanging from a tree, met a Christchurch man as he walked his own dog near McLeans Island yesterday afternoon. Craig Diggs is shown (above) holding a stick with which the dog apparently was beaten before being left to die. hanging •bout 2m from the ground. Craig and his father, Mr
Leighton Diggs, found the dog as thev walked their own black Labrador along the stonbank road, about two miles from the Belfast Hotel. Mr Diggs said the German shepherd would have been aged about 12 months. It probably had been hanging there about a dav. He said he was shocked to think of the cruelty inflicted on the dog. “I just
couldn’t believe anyone could do this sort of thing,” he said. A spokeswoman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the society did not handle dead animals. This was the responsibility of the Christchurch City Council dog ranger, but he would not be able to look at the dog until early this morning, she said.
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