Waikato female Sharna Saunders has actually implicated her neighbour of shooting her 2 dogs Sadie and Mighty on Sunday, August 6 on her property in Ohinewai.
A Waikato female has actually implicated her neighbour of shooting her 2 dogs point-blank and eliminating them.
Sharna Saunders is traumatised after she discovered them stumbling about her yard and enjoyed them collapse.
“It’s horrible. I haven’t been able to sleep, not properly. I went back to work but I’ve had to take days off because of the trauma of losing them, they were like my children.”
Saunders’ 2 dogs, Sadie and Mighty, passed away on Sunday, August 6. A spokesperson for authorities said they got a report 2 dogs had actually been “put down” at an address on Ohinewai North Rd in Ohinewai quickly after 10am.
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The authorities spokesperson said a single person was assisting authorities with their questions and an examination into the event remained in development.
Saunders informed the Herald her neighbour confessed to the authorities he shot the dogs, obviously declaring he did so in self-defence as they assaulted him on his property.
But Saunders questioned the man’s claims, questioning why he would have been equipped the minute they presumably assaulted him, and including how serene her dogs were.
She likewise questioned how Sadie and Mighty might have gone back to her backyard, hurt prior to collapsing, if her neighbour had actually shot them on his property.
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Her neighbour had actually grumbled to the council about the dogs barking previously, she said. The Waikato District Council has actually been approached to validate this.
“They (my dogs) would bark at him (the neighbour). Dogs bark. But they’re not aggressive, they wouldn’t go to attack or anything like that.
“Besides, I didn’t hear them barking that morning (they died). My other neighbours didn’t hear anything either.”
Saunders detailed the event to the Heraldstating it was a sight she wanted she might forget.
“That (Sunday) morning, I let (the dogs) out and I closed the door because it was freezing. I started making mine and my kids’ breakfast and then when I opened the door my girl (Sadie) was leaning up against the back door.
“She was bleeding, her tongue hanging out, and she was just staring at me. There was blood coming from her mouth.
“I freaked out, she came inside, and then she just collapsed,” Saunders said.
She saw her other dog walking around and believed he should have been alright, however while she tended to Sadie her partner went outside to discover the other dog was likewise dead on the back doorstep.
Saunders kept her kids far from the scene, not desiring them to see: “It was something I wouldn’t wish on anyone.”
Her partner then saw what looked like tidy bullet injuries directly to the 2 dogs’ hearts.
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“He said, ‘they’ve been shot’ so I grabbed my phone and I called the police. They came out and they had a quick look at the dogs and said they can’t have been shot from far because they wouldn’t have made it here.
“They (police officers) went to the neighbour’s house first and he admitted, well, this is what the police told me, that they asked him and he admitted it,” Saunders said.
“Then they said there’s nothing they can do because he claims that my dogs went to attack. I haven’t heard anything at all from the police since.”
The Royal New Zealand Society for the Protection of Animals’ (SPCA) inspectorate group lead, Jason Blair, said it appeared the event hadn’t been reported to them.
“We strongly encourage anyone with information to contact NZ Police or SPCA,” he said.
“We are deeply saddened to hear this has occurred.”
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Raphael Franks is an Auckland-based press reporter who covers breaking news. He signed up with the Herald as a Te Rito cadet in 2022.
