While one home owner was able to prevent the poisoning of his dog, another awoke to the grim sight of her two dogs lying dead in her yard.
On Tuesday morning Ms Maggie Degenaar woke up to the sound of the neighbourhood’s dogs barking, this was at about 01:00 on May 9.
Rex and Cooper lay dead after being poisoned early Tuesday morning.
“My husband looked out through the window using a torch but couldn’t see anything. It went quiet and then at around three the dogs were barking again, my husband went out to search the yard,” she said.
While walking through the yard her husband found one of their dogs Cooper, a Spaniel, lying dead.
“Rex, our Alsatian cross, was vomiting up blood and my husband was too late to help, he died as well,” said Degenaar.
One of the dogs vomited up what appears to be mince which was laced with poison.
Degenaar recalls how a few years back Rex was poisoned but managed to survive the ordeal as they got him treatment in time.
The robbers had broken the lock on the motor gate and lifted the gate off the rails. Degenaar searched the yard and found nothing else out of the ordinary, nothing had been stolen.
“I don’t know what they came looking for. A few weeks back they poisoned my neighbour’s dogs and stole their three motorcycles here in Henri Slegtkamp Street,” she said.
“Rex was my daughter’s dog, my son doesn’t even know Cooper, his dog, is dead,” sobbed Degenaar.
A bag of bread was found tucked next to Mr Anthony Scott’s wall.
On Friday May 5, Mr Anthony Scott, a resident from Ga-Nala arrived home in Gala Street after dropping his children off at school and noticed something was amiss along his perimeter wall.
“It looked like someone was digging and closed up the hole, the soil was heaped up against the wall so I went to take a look,” said Scott.
Scott proceeded to dig up the hole that had been covered and found a bread bag with bread inside, he immediately burnt the bag fearing that if he threw it away someone or an animal would find it and consume it with a chance of being poisoned.
“I have a shop I run from inside the yard and my Pitbull, Tyson, runs around in that area. I think they wanted to get rid of Tyson, luckily he didn’t dig up the bag,” said Scott.
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