MAKHADO – Early Monday morning, September 5, Mrs Bea Reimer from the local SPCA received a phone call that a soap box with four puppies inside had been left outside the kennel’s security fence on the Vondeling Road.

A member of the public found the puppies in the enclosed box during his morning exercise. Joseph Ndou, an employee of the SPCA, went outside where he found the puppies inside the box that did not even have any holes in it. The box also still reeked with the smell of soap.

The four puppies were immediately taken out of the box and placed in more humane conditions inside a kennel.

“Who did this? Why not just phone the SPCA,” asked a very upset Mrs Reimer. If the four puppies, eight to ten weeks old, had managed to get out of the box, they could have wandered off in any direction and the chances of their being run over by a car or causing a serious accident can’t be ruled out.

“How could you do an irresponsible thing like this?” is Mrs Reimer’s question to the guilty person. She said that the person who dumped the puppies knows who he or she is and in six months’ time the dog will have puppies again and if the person is just going to do the same again, he or she must have the dog sterilized. Mrs Reimer urged people not to make their work more difficult.

“We do not turn any animals away,” she said. She again urged pet owners to come and talk to the SPCA if they have problems with their pets or to do the responsible thing and have their pets sterilized.