Nz Blood Bath As Reported By Ninemsn

[Ventris]

I cant belive what some people think is the right thing to do. Your dog is killed so you go & kill the dog you think did it & any puppys that are there as well

Story from Ninemsn

A handful of tiny puppies have been found alive hiding under their dead parents after the horrific massacre of 33 dogs in New Zealand.

Dog owner Rowan Hargreaves told the New Zealand Herald that eight puppies, only days old, had survived Monday's bloodshed when a neighbour opened fire at his property north of Auckland.

Mr Hargreaves said he planned to keep the pups after discovering them cowering in his mechanical workshop.

The killings were a revenge attack by Mr Hargreaves's neighbour Russell Mendoza after he discovered his fox terrier mauled to death.

Certain that one of Mr Hargreaves' dogs was to blame, Mr Mendoza and a friend sought retribution the next day by heading next door to the quarry property armed with a .22 rifle and a 12-gauge shotgun.

Mr Mendoza asked Mr Hargreaves, a mechanic who lives in a broken-down truck surrounded by car wrecks, to sign a note agreeing to the mass shooting.

What ensued was what police in the small North Island town of Wellsford described as a "bloody, rifle-killing frenzy".

The owner, who said he'd felt "under enormous pressure" to sign the note, stood behind a shack to shield himself from the "bloodbath".

He said the sound of his canine companions being shot was unlike anything he had ever heard before.

"They were screaming, making sounds dogs just don't make. When one was gone, the others knew they'd be next but they had nowhere to go," the New Zealand Herald quoted him as saying.

When the killing stopped 23 puppies and 10 adult dogs had been slaughtered.

New Zealand's animal protection agency SPCA said it is yet to decide what charges it will lay against Mr Mendoza and his friend.

SPCA executive director Bob Kerridge said staff who had inspected the bloody carcasses of the dead dogs would be offered counselling.

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[k9angel]

This is horrible. I read this story yesterday.

Those poor dogs, bailed up and shot, I can only imagine the fear they would of been feeling...

[luffy4688]

It's already being discussed HERE.