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22October 2008
HARDENED police officers have been shocked by the horrifying torture, mutilation and brutal slaying of a seven-month-old fox terrier dog at Moranbah.
Police have obtained video footage from a mobile phone that shows graphic images of the puppy yelping and howling in terrible pain as it is hacked to pieces.
Animal rights experts have described the case as one of the worst and most horrific in Australian history. Police will allege that a pair of garden shears and a pocket knife were used to torture and kill the little puppy.
Moranbah police said the dog was a family pet and the owners were too distressed and upset to talk to anyone about it.
The dog's nose was cut off, its front right leg and rear left leg were cut off and it was decapitated.
Its stomach was cut open from neck to tail.
Police will say the dog was stolen from a residence in Railway Parade in Moranbah and was taken to a lookout in the town.
Congealed blood and dog hairs were found on picnic tables at the lookout.
A three-part video series on a mobile phone shows the dog being tortured. The final stages of the video show the dog's mutilated body parts.
The dog's body was found about 3.50am on Monday near the town's campdraft ground. It was dumped beside a road.
It is believed a car crashed into a fence at the campdraft ground and police were checking if anyone was injured when they discovered the dog's body.
After seizing the mobile phone, police recovered a set of garden shears which had dog hair and blood on them.
Police also took possession of the clothes worn by two men in the car, for scientific testing.
"Senior police officers were visibly shaken after viewing the footage. Police and the RSPCA say that if the allegations are true this could well be the worst case of animal cruelty ever brought before the courts in Australia," RSPCA's Queensland Chief Inspector Michael Pecic said.
"This is very, very disturbing," Mr Pecic said.
"For legal reasons this is really all I can say at the moment. But when you talk to senior police officers who have seen a lot of carnage in their time and they say it shocked even them, then you begin to get the picture."
Footage from the attack has been suppressed by police until the outcome of the court case.
The maximum penalty under the Animal Care and Protection Act for such an offence is $75,000 or two years in jail; however, the maximum penalty ever handed out has been a four-month jail term.
Two men, aged 20 and 24, were charged in the Mackay Magistrate's Court with stealing a dog, wilfully and unlawfully killing it, wilfully damaging a gate, and unlawful possession of marijuana, all at Moranbah on Monday.
No pleas were entered and both men were remanded in custody until today.
I have been told by another concerned animal lover this little dog tried to escape on the bloodied stumps away from these people who slaughtered it in the end.
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I am shaking and am horrified at what these two men have done. Please, please write to the Magistrates Court in Mackay (Queensland, Australia) Make a difference!
Please write and post your letter to
The Registrar of the Mackay Court
P.O. Box 104
Mackay 4740 QLD
Australia
OR
Email: courthouse.mackay@justice.qld.gov.au
Please attention your letter to the “Registrar of the Mackay court"
This post has been edited by Ruin: 31 October 2008 - 05:16 AM
Reason for edit: Grammar, punctuation
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