Heartbreaking

[DEN53]

http://www.dailymail....ot-40-times-head.html

[~Wingnut~]

I saw the headline and couldn't bring myself to read it, the picture was enough to upset me. It's just sickening. How he survived is a miracle!

[DEN53]

I know Wingy - its beyond me how anyone could hurt a defenceless animal with no reproach.

[carmalee]

an eye for an eye springs to mind in cases like this. truly shocking but then we have become so soft on offenders of any sort there's hardly a deterrent nowadays. hope the dog makes a full recovery and on the bright side - it is now going to have a wonderful home.

[Canary42]

This is in Malta - where they shoot songbirds for sport.

[Prudie]

That is truly awful. Anyone who does that to an animal deserves the death penalty IMO as they must be so warped they couldn't be of any value to society.

[supersuezy24]

I am actually in tears after reading that and seeing the video :(
Poor little Star, His abusers deserve to be taken out and shot the evil fcukers!!!!!!
I hope Star eventually gets rehomed to a loving, warm, kind and caring home where he will get lots of love, attention and cuddles.

[jules77]

Who brings these type of people into the world, they dont deserve to breathe the same air as the rest of us.

[ladybirder]

Dear God what sort of human being does this to an animal? Thank God he was found in time.

[redman41]

That is horrific DEN !
Whoever did that to this poor Dog needs shooting !
Glad I have never been to Malta............

[marval]

That is dreadful, how could anyone do that to an innocent animal. I hope they get caught, they should have the same done to them.

[anneasquith]

no. cant read it :(

[Kleiber]

I haven't seen the article (nor do I really want to, by the sounds of it!), but I've been to Malta and wasn't impressed. Anyone else been, in the tourist season and seen all those cute little cats running about? Did you notice there were no adult or old cats, only youngsters? I believe (and I hope someone can refute this!) that at the end of the summer, the Maltese destroy the majority of the cats, just leaving a few to breed the following year, to attract the tourists. They're all feral and starving, so tourists are easily taken in. Of course, the locals deny my claim, but if I'm wrong, then where are the adult moggies?

[grasscarp]

What I cant understand is first how he survived if there were 40 gunshots to his head, and second, why did the sick perpetrator leave his head unburied, unless he wanted the poor thing to suffer more, by being unable to escape. Thank goodness he was found. Let's hope they find who did it.

[ladybirder]

You can read it Anne, it does have a happy ending.

[pussnboots]

I can't read it, anything to do with cruelty to animals upsets me.

[ladybirder]

grasscarp I wondered if he had managed to get his nose out from under the soil himself. Or did the sick b who did it leave his nose out so that he would suffer for longer?

[carmalee]

clear case for a call to the UK holidaymakes to boycott Malta until they extract digit and tighten up their animal welfare laws

[Kleiber]

I quite agree, carmalee (I was on business, not hols and to be honest, I wouldn't recommend the place - it's awful!). K

[DEN53]

I've been to Malta- though a few years ago now - it was a dump !

[B00]

grasscarp, they were air rifle pellets, not shotgun shells.

Read this story this morning, truly horrific, and like you said Den, heartbreaking. Words really can't describe the revulsion you feel for the people who did this, so i'll ust agree with everyone else who's already posted.