A stray dog’s agony was painfully recounted on the Facebook page of Action for Singapore Dogs (ASD), which posted a photo of a canine with horrible wounds around its torso due to a steel wire trap.
In the outrage that followed, some fingers are being pointed at the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA), who are known to employ external contractors to trap stray animals.
TODAY reports, however, that AVA has not in fact engaged any such jobs to trap stray dogs in the Lim Chu Kang area recently, where the dog in subject — now called Nima — was found.
ASD volunteers found Nima after days of searching and managed to release the canine from the steel wire that had embedded deep in its torso. Though they never mentioned who might be behind the cruel trap, they claim that its actually a common method used by professional trappers to catch dogs in forested terrains.
The red arrows point to where the wire cut into Nami’s flesh. It dug in so deeply that her ribs were sheared and bone fragments were littered around the area
Posted by Action for Singapore Dogs (ASD) on Thursday, 18 February 2016
AVA is currently investigating the case with the assistance of ASD.
