That’s plane cruel

Sunday, 21 Jun, 2004 0

A woman in Germany has reportedly been caught starving her pet dog to make it light enough to take on a flight as carry-on luggage.

 

According to the online news provider Ananova, the woman was stopped by police as she walked the dog in the city of Nuremberg; officer were suspicious because the 12-kilo dog should have weighed twice that amount.

 

It was taken to a pet shelter, where the owner reportedly told the German publication Bild: “I have seen many miserable things, but never something this cruel. This dog should weigh 25 kilos.”

 

Bild reportedly quotes the woman owner as saying that she was aiming to reduce the dog’s weight even more so she could take it on to a flight as hand luggage, but she denies that she had treated it cruelly.

 

Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad



 



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