Just before 8am on Wednesday, a member of the public reported to Gozo SPCA that there was a dog crying in a skip in Marsalforn. The Centre Manager, Betty Berry, immediately responded with the Gozo SPCA funded twenty four hour animal ambulance and requested the local Police to also be in attendance. On arrival with the Police, Betty Berry found a dog feed sack inside the skip in which there appeared to be a dog in severe pain.
On removal from the skip, to their horror they discovered that the dog was on top of another dog inside the same sack. Examination of the second dog revealed it to be dead, but the death was recent since rigor mortis had not set in. The dog that was alive was in severe pain throwing its head back in agony, screaming and fitting. After covering its head to calm the dog, it was rushed to the Vet.
The Vet diagnosed that the dog had been poisoned and was in the final throes of dying an agonising death, sadly the only option was to put it peacefully to sleep. Both dogs were small to medium in size, of terrier cross breed and looked to have been in quite good health prior to being poisoned.
Whilst making a report at the Victoria Police Station, Gozo SPCA was informed that an injured kitten had been handed in by a tourist, who had picked it up nearby; they thought it had been hit by a car. In fact it had a severe eye infection, which could result in the loss of one eye. Other than that the kitten, which is very tame, seems in good health and is eating well and is now under veterinary care at the Gozo SPCA shelter. This cruel abandonment may well have a very happy ending since the Police would like to have the kitten as a Station cat when it has fully recovered from its treatment.
Gozo SPCA personnel have been very shaken and deeply upset by these two cruel events following so closely on the dog found in a Cave last week.
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