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Fury after cat caught in trap TINNEKE GOEDHALS
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FAMILY of Water Road, Walmer, is severely traumatized after their beloved cat got trapped in a neighbour’s gin trap last week resulting in his leg having to be amputated. The trap was set in the neighbour’s yard right next to the boundary wall that separates the two properties. Sharon Berrington, owner of the cat Bailey (1), says she found it strange that he did not come to their room the morning of the incident as he usually does. “I went to call him by shaking his
was shocked to find him in the trap. In a desperate attempt to help the cat and after calling the neighbour and hooting outside of his yard to get his attention, her husband, Warwick, fetched two ladders and climbed over the wall. “Twenty minutes later the neighbour came out of his house and opened the trap with his own special tools. When they confronted their neighbour, Rudolph Herselman, he said the trap was set to catch burglars. “Someone apparently stole his geyser and he accused tree fellers that we hired,” said Berrington. When the Anti-Animal Cruelty league arrived the trap had already been removed. Berrington said her children,
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Bailey’s (1) leg had to be amputated after his leg was caught in a trap in the neigh bours yard. Photo: SUPPLIED cat pellets, because he normally comes,” said Berrington. She could hear him meow and when she searched the back yard she
Joshua (7) and Kate (4) had been affected the worst by the incident.
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Colleagues Marius Erasmus (left) and Janus van Loggerenberg are packed and on their way to attend the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles next week. This is the prize they won in an online competition recently. Read more about it on page 10. Photo: ZELDRÉ SWANEPOEL
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