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Dec
Police Officers Caught on Video Kicking and Beating Dogs
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Two of Britain’s ‘finest’ from Prestatyn, North Wales, have been convicted for abusing their dogs after a neighbour set up a camera overseeing their back garden, capturing 240 hours of video. Anja Mason and Craig Macleod were convicted of causing unnecessary suffering yet have seemingly kept their jobs and escaped a prison sentence. Instead they were given community service orders and banned from keeping dogs for 5 years. The video shows:
Mason kicking Tess (a Border Collie puppy) and picking her up by the neck to throw her across the back garden. Mcleod also picking up Tess by the neck and throwing her across the garden for no apparent reason, whilst hanging out washing. Mason picking up a stick and chasing after Tess to beat her, yelps could be heard on the video. Mcleod grabbing Snoopy (a Rottweiler) by the lead, dragging him closer and then hitting him hard on the nose, Snoopy tried desperately to back away.
“Unnecessary suffering?”.. or “torture?” And remember, the video also only shows events that happen outside of the house.
The PETA Foundation sent a letter to the magistrates court and Denbigh police calling for Mcleod and Mason to be removed from service, undergo thorough psychological evaluation followed by mandatory counselling at their own expense. In my opinion, allowing these two officers to go back to active duty is a time-bomb waiting to explode, the police are there to stop violence, not be the propagators of it – there is a strong connection between cruelty to animals and violence to humans and this may not be the last we hear of these two – I can only hope that it is.
For more information on the link between cruelty to animals and violence to humans, visit the PETA Foundation website.
After watching the video I just can’t believe that they’re allowing Mason and Mcleod to stay in the police force! I certainly wouldn’t trust them to protect my commnunity.
The article also said Macleod has two children, I seriously hope he’s supervised when he visits them.
I have a border collie called Tess and I can’t imagine any reason for a border collie to be “disciplined” in this way: they’re very intelligent dogs and can be very easily trained using rewards.