Somerset Heights residents were awakened in the early hours of Wednesday 3 September by the howling of a dog trapped by a snare, possibly for three days.
Somerset Heights residents were awakened in the early hours of Wednesday 3 September by the howling of a dog trapped by a snare, possibly for three days.
Lynette Rudman, a resident, said the dog could belong to one of the hunters who often put snares to catch rabbits, buck and other animals in the area. According to Rudman, the dog kept the whole neighbourhood with the wailing that began about 3am.
“This is really a huge problem because it’s the third time this week," she said.
"Something needs to be done about these hunters roaming the area.” She added that this happened before this week, but that she was not present then.
“The problem is dogs keep quiet when they hear footsteps which makes it hard for them to be located and also the bush is very thick in the area,” she said. In a telephone interview with Grocott’s Mail, SPCA rescue team member Miloli Dingane said the SPCA received a call at about 8.45am from a woman saying that a dog had been caught by a snare in Somerset Heights.
“Upon our arrival we had to search the whole area for the dog because of the thick bushes, and it took us about 40 minutes to locate its whereabouts,” said Dingane. He said they believe the dog had spent almost three days there as it was very frail. Dingane backed up Rudman's charges, saying it was not the first time they had been called up there to deal with this sort of situation.
“Last week we got several calls about animals that had apparently been trapped and one of our team members almost got bitten by a cobra when they went to investigate,” he said.
