Target: Azrial Scheepers, Executive Mayor, Cederberg Local Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
Goal: Take immediate action to address reports of animals being stoned, starved, and abandoned, including a stray dog stoned to death.
A deeply disturbing situation has emerged in a rural community where volunteers say they are facing overwhelming cases of animal neglect and abuse. According to reports from local animal welfare volunteers, a stray dog known as Viskop was stoned to death by children in an informal settlement. The dog, which volunteers cared for and regularly fed, was allegedly attacked with stones until it died, leaving rescuers devastated by what they discovered.
Animal welfare volunteers say the incident is only one example among many troubling cases they are encountering. Reports indicate that some animals in the area have been stoned, starved, or left suffering from severe illnesses such as tick-bite fever, mange, and parvovirus. Volunteers also reportedly learned of a litter of puppies that had been dumped in a rubbish bin along a main road.
Volunteers say they are struggling to continue their work amid increasing reports of cruelty and neglect. Without adequate support or resources, rescuers fear that vulnerable animals will continue to suffer. Urgent action is necessary to prevent further alleged cruelty and to ensure that animal protection laws are properly enforced.
PETITION LETTER:
Mayor Scheepers,
We write to express grave concern regarding animal abuse and neglect occurring in your municipality. According to reports from animal welfare volunteers, a stray dog known as Viskop was stoned to death by children in an informal settlement, an incident that left rescuers deeply shaken.
Volunteers also report encountering animals that were stoned or starved, as well as animals suffering from severe illnesses including tick-bite fever, mange, and parvovirus. In another troubling report, a litter of puppies was allegedly discovered dumped in a rubbish bin along a main road.
We respectfully urge your office to take immediate steps to investigate these reports, strengthen enforcement of animal protection laws, and provide meaningful support for local animal welfare efforts. Strong action is essential to help prevent further cruelty and to protect vulnerable animals in the community.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo credit: Akingbola Opeyemi
Children need to learn from a very young age how to love and care for God’s creations and learn that these animals belong to our heavenly Father and are not ours to abuse or destroy or confine.
And when they do mistreat these animals, they need to be punished just like anybody else. In the Bible it literally says, spare the rod spoil the child.
God is not the author of confusion he is the god of Truth and if he says you chastise these children then you chastise them no matter how young they are if they are old enough to commit a crime they are old enough to do the time and face whatever consequences and they need to learn through long endurement of punishment that this is not okay a death resulted from their actions.
From The Bible: Regarding Animals:
Throughout The Ancient World, Countless Animals Have Been Sacrificed For Religious Or Secular In Order To Appease God Or Some Other God Or To Provide Restitution In Certain Legal Situations. However… It Eventually Became Clear That NO Animal Sacrifice Could Deal With The Fundamental And Disturbingly Serious Human Condition Which Has Often Been Referred To As “The Problem Of Evil”. For This Very Reason,, Two Thousand Years Ago Our Wise And Loving All-Powerful God And Creator Of The Universe Sent His One And Only Son, Our Personal Lord And Savior Jesus The Christ, Into The World To Become The Ultimate Sacrifice Who Would Not Only Pay The Penalty (Which Is Death) For All Our Wrongdoing, But To Deal With It For Good! Therefore,, We Have God’s Word On It:
Soon The Lamb Of God Will Return To Earth To Justly And Rightly Judge The World, Rewarding All Those Who Have Been Kind And Merciful With Eternal Life While Sentencing All Those Who Have Persisted In A Life Of Cruelty And Violence, To Everlasting Punishment And Unspeakable Conscious Torment In The Lake Of Fire And Brimstone:
Looks Like You’ll All End Up In Hell.
EVIL children go to hell too!