They were alerted by the animal's howls... High school students from Bergerac in the Dordogne witnessed a particularly shocking scene on Wednesday. In the morning, they were the ones who could see that a man was hanging a dog with his leash from his balcony.
They quickly called the municipal police and the man was arrested while he was recovering the body of the poor animal, report our colleagues from Sud-Ouest. Presented to the prosecutor's office this Friday, he will be tried on July 3 for animal abuse.
In the meantime, he is placed under judicial supervision and must be the subject of a psychiatric examination. Placed in custody while he placed the remains of the Dalmatian in his car, according to France Blue, the forty-year-old would have told the police that he was tired of the "nonsense of the animal".
Accused of abandoning this dog tied up in the forest
A dog named "Miro", aged three, who would have been impounded several times in recent weeks, after escaping. The SPA, where the animal had been adopted three or four months ago by the wife of this man, had even been solicited again a few days ago. He was then tied to a tree in the forest.
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"We told the owner to be careful, that someone was mad at her dog," Eric Delugin, director of the Bergerac SPA, told local radio. She was reportedly shocked to learn that her 47-year-old companion was suspected of abandoning her to her sad fate.
The court then requested an autopsy of the animal to find out if Miro had suffered further abuse before being hanged with his leash. In the meantime, the man faces a five-year prison sentence.