The Timms couple from Wilro Park is at the end of their tether and fearing for the lives of their two German Shepherds.
About three months ago they started receiving threatening sinister letters being posted to them, said Mary Timms. The first one was posted 26 May and read “Your barking dogs will be poisoned…if you are not going to shut them up. Next time they start we will poison them”.
The second one was posted 12 June and ended with the words “woef, woef, woef, I am so sick of it I can kill a dog”. Another one, posted 28 July, contained a newspaper clipping from the Record about a poisoned dog, and said “Last warning. We will give you two weeks in case of post office delay”. This was signed of by an ‘Erica Group’. The Timms having already distributed letters to all their neighbours to ask that whoever the culprit is must either stop or come and see them, then approached the body corporate of the complex across from their house which is called Erica Villas. The body corporate obliged to distribute their letter to residents in the complex but still the person responsible did not own up.
Again a letter, posted 5 August arrived in the mail. This time it said “if they bark for nothing then shut them up otherwise I will kill them” and on 27 August they received another newspaper clipping of a Record article about dog poisonings which only had the words “Sorry. R.I.P” written on it.
Mary explained that that the dogs sleep in the kitchen at night and therefor hardly bark at night. She is also home during the day and said she would have scolded the dogs if they were barking excessively.
“Either it is an elaborate prank, or someone got the wrong house or the person has a personal problem with us,” she said.
“We have tried the police but they said they could not help and the SPCA admitted it is a serious matter but we are still waiting for them to come back to us,” Mary concluded.
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