Man’s best friend killed by a dog’s worst enemy

BARBARISM triumphed over humaneness in Katutura on Tuesday afternoon, when a female dog was clubbed to death by a woman who proceeded to chop the animal into pieces as part of her plan to barbecue the meat and sell it as kapana.

Witnesses who were horrified by the sight of the woman beating the dog to death with a wooden pickaxe handle in Clemens Kapuuo Street near the Katutura Single Quarters called a radio station, Katutura Community Radio, and the City Police and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) were also alerted. According to KCR reporter Jehoiackim Kapeve, who was at the scene, the woman beat the dog to death after tying it to a tree with a rope.She then carried it over to an open fire at the Single Quarters, where she singed off the animal’s hair, before returning to the scene of the killing, where she then cut up the animal.Kapeve told The Namibian on Wednesday that the woman said she had killed the animal because she wanted to barbecue its meat and sell it.The City Police and SPCA intervened and confiscated the remains of the dog.In a statement issued by the SPCA on Wednesday, the organisation pointed out that in Namibia it is not against the law to slaughter and eat your own dog or cat – as long as the animal is killed humanely with minimal stress and suffering.”The slaughtering and eating of cats and dogs cannot be stopped but humane slaughtering can and should be enforced,” the organisation stated.It added that the matter of the dog’s killing has been handed over to the Police to be investigated.In the meantime, the SPCA itself will also be investigating whether the dog’s owner had a licence for the animal.If the dog was unlicensed, the owner will be fined.According to KCR reporter Jehoiackim Kapeve, who was at the scene, the woman beat the dog to death after tying it to a tree with a rope. She then carried it over to an open fire at the Single Quarters, where she singed off the animal’s hair, before returning to the scene of the killing, where she then cut up the animal.Kapeve told The Namibian on Wednesday that the woman said she had killed the animal because she wanted to barbecue its meat and sell it.The City Police and SPCA intervened and confiscated the remains of the dog.In a statement issued by the SPCA on Wednesday, the organisation pointed out that in Namibia it is not against the law to slaughter and eat your own dog or cat – as long as the animal is killed humanely with minimal stress and suffering.”The slaughtering and eating of cats and dogs cannot be stopped but humane slaughtering can and should be enforced,” the organisation stated.It added that the matter of the dog’s killing has been handed over to the Police to be investigated.In the meantime, the SPCA itself will also be investigating whether the dog’s owner had a licence for the animal.If the dog was unlicensed, the owner will be fined.