https://www.reformer.com/stories/letter-stop-torturing-defenseless-animals,574901
The SPCA has prosecuted a Canterbury man for using an illegal trap for the purpose of capturing an animal.
Graham Witty was convicted on Wednesday, 29 May after a one-day trial at Christchurch District Court. He must pay $500 towards the SPCA and has been ordered to come up for sentence if called upon for one year.
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The case started on June 27, 2017, when a City Care labourer noticed a noisy, flapping pukeko while working in Christchurch’s styx drain.
The SPCA said: “The labourer saw the bird’s leg was stuck in a serrated edge, size [1.5] long spring leg hold trap, secured to the defendant’s boundary fence in an area of…
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