WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT
Story By: Buli Liang, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report
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This is the moment a cruel dog owner ties his pet pooch up to fire hydrant before beating it to death with a wooden plank.
The shocking incident occurred in the middle of the night in Guangzhou City, the capital of Guangdong Province in south China and was caught on CCTV cameras as neighbours were woken by the dog’s howls.
In the video, the dog owner, surnamed Huang, whose exact age is not reported but is said to be over 60 years old, can be seen taking his white dog out onto a pavement and tying it up to a fire hydrant.
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He then walks away before returning with a large wooden plank and he begins trying to hit the tied-up pooch with it.
The dog tries desperately to escape the blows from the plank but it cannot do so and Huang eventually deals it a deadly blow to the head. The cruel dog owner then calmly walks away from the scene, leaving the dead dog on the road.
A local resident told reporters: ”It was three or four in the morning. A man brought his dog downstairs. He probably didn’t want that dog and then beat it to death. It screamed in extreme pain, not barking. I found the dead dog when I went to work at six in the morning. The dog was still chained to the fire hydrant.”
When a local reporter went to interview Huang, he reportedly smiled and said: ”I used that wooden board just to try to hit its butt. But by accident, I slammed its head and kill it. I cried at the time. I had driven the dog from Beijing to Guangzhou (more than 2,000 kilometres) but I don’t know why it was always aggressive to me.
”I killed it by accident, not on purpose.”
PETA Asia press officer for China, Keith Guo told AsiaWire: ”There is no excuse for abusing an animal to death. People living in that area were all eyewitnesses to the horrible murder which lasted for two minutes. However, the man will not be punished for his violent abuse in public.
“That’s another tragedy showing why China needs an animal welfare law. PETA hopes the local urban management department can deprive the right of keeping companion animals from the man in case he kills more in public by accident.”
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