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JANUARY 13 2012 ISSUE 1035
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THE HEARTBEAT OF PENRITH
Heartless attack Another case of animal cruelty as dog is set upon by teen with shovel
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SSalvatore l t Iogha, I h Courtney C t Bl Blairi and d JJoell Blair with family dog Penny. Inset: Dr Mark Westman speaks to the media about the animal cruelty incident. [Photos: Melinda Jenkins]
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alvatore Iogha and his family are appealing to the public for help after their family dog was attacked by a teenager armed with a shovel handle last Saturday morning. Mr Iogha, his partner Courtney Blair, 28, and son Joel Blair, 8, were devastated when their three-year-old Jack Russell Cavalier-cross called Penny
was bashed just outside their Kemps Creek home in Herbert Street. Penny ran to the front gate and started barking when the teenager carrying the shovel walked past the family’s home. Mr Iogha said he called Penny back but as she obeyed the boy struck her in the face with the wooden handle. “When she was running in, there was blood running down her face and I knew she was hurt badly,” he said.
Mr Iogha is urging the teenager to come forward. He was described to investigators as being aged 16 to 17years-old of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern appearance and last seen wearing a white shirt and blue shorts with a yellow stripe. Dr Mark Westman treated Penny but said that it would take two months and possibly three surgeries to have her back to normal. An x-ray showed that her jaw was
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completely fractured on the left side and that one of her canine teeth had been snapped off. “It is very sad and shocking that a sweet dog like Penny has to go through this traumatic experience,” said Dr Westman. The incident follows a second case of animal cruelty in Kingswood recently when a 24-year-old woman threw her puppy out the window of her unit, 15 metres above the ground.
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