A €3,500 reward has been offered to help catch and convict the person, or persons, responsible for the horrific death of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
Yesterday, ‘Tony’ the dog that was reportedly hogtied and placed over a slow burning fire beside The Curragh Racecourse, died two days after being discovered.
Kildare West Wicklow SPCA reported that the young dog’s organs had slowly cooked and over time failed in one of the worst forms of animal cruelty we’ve ever heard of.
“He was suffering from facial ticks/spasms which was the result of neurological damage to his brain from the heat of the fire” a Facebook post detailed.
According to the Irish Times, an Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) donor has put a €3,500 reward forward to help gather information needed to apprehend and convict those responsible.
“Tony, the vet who little Tony was named for, told us that they had cleaned his body in a special fluid and what was originally though to be dirt on him was in fact soot from a fire,” the KWWSPCA post detailed.
“The marks on his paws which also looked like dirt were actually the charred remains of whatever was used to hog tie him and hang him over a low burning fire”.
KWWSPCA have informed Gardaí who will launch an investigation into the horrific incident.
Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact the ISPCA National Animal Cruelty Helpline on 1890 515 515.
