{"id":34553,"date":"2015-09-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/34553\/shock-animal-cruelty-video\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T18:33:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:33:05","slug":"shock-animal-cruelty-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/17\/shock-animal-cruelty-video\/","title":{"rendered":"(Warning not for sensitive viewers) &#8211; Video: Shocking animal cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior inspector Petro Oberholzer (Middelburg SPCA) confirmed that a criminal case under the Animal Protection Act will be opened after a woman from Hlalamnandi dunked the dogs into boiling water.<\/p>\n<p>A concerned passer by called the SPCA when they heard the cries of the animals.<\/p>\n<p>When Inspector Oberholzer arrived, she was shocked with what she found. &#8220;Its was heartbreaking seeing and hearing the screaming of the burnt puppies! The mother also had burn wounds. They all had to be euthanized to stop further suffering&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The puppies had severe burn wounds on the legs and mouths and the bitch was also in pain with burn wounds on her skin.<\/p>\n<p>Insp. Oberholzer was just waiting for a report from the vet, whereafter she will open a case against the woman.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Nntyo6JEDn4' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Send a message to our SMS line 37 940 or add us onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">@Mobserv<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video\u2019s<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bitch and her 10 three day old puppies had to be humanely euthanized because a woman threw them into boiling water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":34570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Daleen Naude","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}