A Terrible Story of Abuse

[pastafreak]

http://leicestertalk....e-leicestershire.html

I've deliberately NOT posted a link with photos...it is extremely upsetting.

[boxtops]

That is just disgusting, pasta - poor dogs. Revolting curiosity as to whether they died there, or somewhere else and were put there - otherwise it would take more than one person to have undertaken this. I hope they get them, but unless someone notices dogs are missing, it looks unlikely.

[chrissa1]

Words fail me!!

[Sqad]

Nothing.....just nothing surprises me about the human race any more.

[pastafreak]

Some further articles I've read,say the dogs were most likely alive when it happened. It has really sickened me...as you can see they were lovely and healthy dogs.

Yes...I agree sqad
Before I got Sally-my lurcher-I had no idea the abuse these dogs---and also greyhounds,and galgos(the Spanish equivalent) are subjected to.

[Chaffinch]

How blo*dy disgusting, it must,have taken more than one person as boxtops said, who ever did this should suffer the same fate, in frount of a large baying crowd!

[ummmm]

Awful...I really cannot understand how someone can hurt an animal. I have a guilt trip if I stand on the cats tail :-(

[boxtops]

I have found the feature by googling - the dogs do indeed look healthy and must have been aware of each other's agony. This is revolting. It apparently happened on New Year's Eve, I am surprised we haven't heard about this before. The lady who discovered them was 78 years old - horrible for her. The photo has only been published in an attempt to identify the dogs, with apologies for shocking people. I only hope they weren't someone's stolen pets. I have to stop now - the speculation is horrible.

[bensmum]

That is so awful - it chokes me but sadly doesn't surprise me that people can be that cruel. Like most on here I would love to get hold of the bastards that did it

[ummmm]

I'm shocked it doesn't 'surprise' people. Maybe if we lost that kind of attitude about things like this we could truly see such people as the scum they are, instead of an 'oh well, I'm not surprised'

[pastafreak]

I don't think it's an 'oh well' attitude.........more 'OMG...i have seen this coming', in the sense that the sorts of cases we are hearing about are getting worse.

The dogs do look very healthy boxy....and I've wondered if they trusted the persons who took them there........it really is too horrific to think about.

I am also surprised not to have seen this in the national press...I found it on a dog forum I go on.

[kaztuz]

I live a few miles from where this happened and it is shocking to think that these dogs were probably alive when they were hung up - WHY???????????
Congerstone is a very small and quiet village and is in a very rural area really, I can't imagine it being someone who is very local, however where they were hung is not somewhere frequented by lots of people, so they must have known the area.
Our local paper printed the pictures of them hanging there, and they have not had a good response from readers for printing the photos, especially as the front page said upsetting images on page 3, when it was actually on page 5.

[kaztuz]

It was on the national news just before New Year - because we couldn't believe it when they said Congerstone in Leicestershire.

[WELSHYORKIE]

I'm with crackatoa on this one - hang the fockers

[mccfluff]

scum, i would do to them, what they did to the dogs. and i haven;t read the link as i'll probably end up in tears

[andy-hughes]

boxtops - it may be small comfort, but the pereceived wisdom is that animals do not empathise with each other in terms of suffering. it is unlikely that either dog was aware of the suffering of the other - if indeed they were placed there while alive, and we have to hope that at least was not the case.

[pastafreak]

I doubt many pet owners will agree,andy....as there are certainly enough anecdotes of pets response/reactions when one of several in a group is suffering. I've also read descriptions of the reactions of animals in slaughter houses.....again-not scientific.....but we should not pooh-pooh it.

[kaztuz]

Nothing has been reported locally, if I hear anything on the local news or in the local press I will post it.

[oranger]

Hangings to quick chaffinch something long,lingering and very painful.