TEARS ran down Jo Heycocks’ face as she recalled the story of how her beloved pet, Carter, was stabbed to death by dog walkers last week.
An emotional Heycocks said her Rottweiler pup of three ran out their Kensington Drive home on Monday, 9 June at about 4.30pm when their son got home from school. “Carter never ran out the gate before, but because there was a couple walking their dark brown, large dog Carter ran out the gate. An altercation ensued between the two dogs and that’s when my son ran back outside and found Carter collapsed on our driveway.”
Heycocks immediately jumped in her car and rushed Carter to Glenashley Veterinary Clinic down the road. When the vet saw Carter, he immediately sedated him to operate on him. A little while later the vet delivered the sad news that Carter had died from his extensive injuries. The vet report said Carter was stabbed with a rod-like structure, which pierced from the one side of his belly to the other.
“We went to the police station to open a case. They referred us to the Durban and Coast SPCA, who suggested that we contact Northglen News to do an article in the hope to find the people who stabbed him so the SPCA can prosecute them,” Heycocks said.
“To us Carter wasn’t just a dog, he was just too human. He was like a child to us. By all means, hit my dog if he’s fighting with your dog, but to stab him, and so brutally at that, is totally uncalled for. He didn’t deserve a death like that,” she said as a tear trickled down her cheek.
The distraught family is now calling on any witnesses to come forward and offered a reward to those who saw what happened and could identify the walkers.
“On the way to the vet I tried looking down every street to see if I could find them, but there was no sight of them. There also hasn’t been a couple with a dark brown, large dog walking in Kensington Drive.”
