“SO long as there are others who care enough about something to invest time and energy in sustaining it’s life, that life should be worth living,” so said private investigator, Brad Nathanson.
Nathanson is on a mission to track down the person who allegedly killed a stray dog living in a sugarcane field in Summerveld, known affectionately by the locals as Cane.
The beloved hound went missing in January, after which concerned residents, Karin Voigt and her friend Sharon, who had been feeding him on a regular basis, appealed to the community for information on his disappearance or whereabouts.
Their fears were escalated when they noticed a pool of blood near his bed.
At the time Voigt told the Highway Mail that several attempts had been made to catch Cane, but unfortunately he would not let them near him.
“We understand that the life of a stray dog may not mean much to some when compared to the life of a human being, but the hearts of human beings have been hurt by the obvious death and subsequent disappearance of Cane,” added Nathanson.
“Nobody can argue or compare another’s love, so to the person/s who killed Cane, know that your actions have caused pain to those who took care of Cane for almost a year.”
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Nathanson said the person exacerbated the situation by removing Cane’s remains, as it robbed those who cared about him of closure.
“You have been cruel to an animal and cruel to humans.”
This is what is known of the suspect(s) thanks to a confidential informant:
- He/she may be a professional hunter.
- He/she was “hunting” Cane for weeks.
- He/she arrived at the site where Cane was killed as a passenger in a silver coloured SUV.
- A woman had driven the vehicle.
- The woman alighted the SUV and threw food for Cane.
- When Cane emerged from the sugarcane, the suspect alighted the SUV dressed in a “Ghillie suit”.
- He/she got into a crouched position, took aim and shot Cane with an arrow fired from a compound bow.
Nathanson believes Cane’s carcass was removed for one of three reasons; to hide the manner in which Cane was killed, to test the effects of a particular arrow-head and/or as a trophy.
“I understand the necessity for hunting and even culling, but it is difficult to get my head around the mind of a man who would camouflage himself to kill a defenseless domestic animal who posed no threat and whose death may only be described as “sport”,” he said.
“I pray that this post jogs your conscience or the memory of somebody who knows what you did. You have people to answer to. You had no right nor good reason.”
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