Inwoners van Hopefield het hul kommer uitgespreek oor die haglike toestande waarin \u2019n trop honde hulself bevind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die 24 honde waarvan vyf net sewe weke oud is en sewe omtrent twee weke oud is word tans aangehou in varkhokke op \u2019n erf in Hopefield. Wat inwoners ontstel, is die feit dat hierdie diere nie ordentlike versorging kry nie en dat hul eienaar hulle aan hul eie genade oorlaat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hendrik van Romburgh, \u2019n inwoner van die dorp het op Sondag 27 Oktober ondersoek gaan instel en was geskok oor waarop hy afgekom het. Met geen vars water, regte honde kos of skoon en gemaklike slaapplek nie, meen Van Romburgh dit is nie hoe diere behandel moet word nie en dat dit verkeerd is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit lyk soos lusern pille en dit is tans by \u2019n laboratorium in Stellenbosch om getoets te word sodat ons presies kan vasstel wat dit is. Ek hoop en bid ons kry binnekort \u2019n antwoord,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ander inwoners meen die eienaar van die honde hou hulle aan vir teeldoeleindes en kom al vir \u2019n geruime tyd weg met die slegte behandeling van honde, ook in ander dorpe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nog \u2019n inwoner van Hopefield s\u00ea dat daar op Donderdag 3 Oktober 19 Border Collies na die eiendom gebring is. \u201cDaardie nag kon feitlik nie een van die inwoners [in die omtrek] slaap nie, weens die aanhoudende geblaf van die honde. By inspeksie deur die omliggende inwoners die volgende dag is daar gevind dat hierdie diere almal in dieselfde area gesit is sonder sigbare kos en voldoende water, op \u2019n dag waar die temperatuur tot 41 grade gestyg het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van Romburgh s\u00ea hy het op verskeie kere na die Dierebeskermingsvereniging (DBV) uitgereik, maar sien geen aksie van hul kant nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Louis van Zyl van die Swartland- en Weskus DBV het hulle op verskeie klagtes gereageer en die eiendom op verskeie geleenthede besoek. \u201c\u2019n Magistraat sal slegs \u2019n lasbrief aan die DBV toestaan wanneer daar bevestigde oortredings van die Dierebeskermingswet is, na die toepaslike prosedures gevolg is, wat ook die uitreiking van waarskuwings insluit waar nodig. Op hierdie stadium is geen sodanige oortredings gevind wat \u2019n inspekteur in staat sou stel om \u2019n lasbrief te bekom nie, s\u00ea Van Zyl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns verstaan dat sommige klaers onder die indruk is dat die DBV \u2019n eiendom kan betree en diere kan konfiskeer. Die feit is dat volgens Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing, word diere as eiendom beskou. Dit beteken dat die verwydering van diere vanaf private eiendom sonder eksplisiete magtiging onwettig sou wees en moontlik as diefstal beskou kan word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns monitor die situasie noukeurig met betrekking tot die welsyn van die diere, wat ons prioriteit bly, maar dit is belangrik om daarop te let dat daar tans geen gronde is vir die wettiglike verwydering van die honde met \u2019n lasbrief nie.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Tereza Burger, woordvoerder van die Saldanhabaai-munisipaliteit is hul wetstoepassing tans besig met \u2019n ondersoek rakende die kwessie. \u201cNadat die ondersoek afgehandel is, sal \u2019n beslissing gemaak word,\u201d voeg sy by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inwoners s\u00ea drastiese stappe moet geneem word sodat die honde na \u2019n plek van veiligheid geneem kan word of liefdevolle huise vind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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