News24 Story : Puppy dies a horrific death

[alaskan....@gocco.co.za]

Delmas - A man tried to outrun Beeld's photographer on Tuesday after
appearing in court here, charged with cutting off his husky puppy's
head
with a chain-saw.

Phillip Matthysen, who lives on a small-holding at Sundra, has
provisionally been charged with animal abuse following the gruesome
incident at his home on February 22 this year. The police said his
four-month-old husky had died painfully, apparently because it had
killed Matthysen's macaw parrot. Alex Serate, 31, Matthysen's
gardener,
allegedly held the husky down while Matthysen sliced through its head
with a petrol-driven chain-saw. Neighbours who heard the dog howling
and
whimpering saw what had happened and called the police. The husky's
carcass had already been buried when police officers arrived at the
small-holding. Leon van Vrede of the Sundra police confirmed the
incident. "Two witnesses phoned and reported what had happened." He
said
it was apparently not the first time that the dog had caught one of
its
owner's exotic parrots. Matthysen and Serate were arrested on
February
23, a day after the incident, and both were later freed on bail.
Matthysen and his attorney, Dirk Maree, refused to speak to The Beeld.

[Jenny Piper]

Words cannot describe how I feel at this moment!! I am sick to the bottom
of my stomach at the cruelty and pain that this man can inflict on his pet
puppy, who in all probably thought it was a huge game to chase and catch
this bird. What a despicable person.

Jenny