SINGAPORE - A man was fined $5,000 on
Monday for not taking a maggot-infested wounded dog to a veterinarian for
treatment.
This is despite observing the wound to be
necrotic and that the dog's condition was not improving.
Yong Chin Hon, a vegetable farmer, admitted to
causing unnecessary suffering to a male cross-breed brown coloured dog on his
farm in Lim Chu Kang.
On August 17 2011, SPCA received a tip off
alerting them to a dog with a large maggot-infested wound on its head that was
kept at 31 Lim Chu Kang Lane 1.
When the SPCA officers arrived at the farm at
about 7pm the same day, they saw that the wound was extensive and ran along the
dog's spine.
Yong, 37, said the dog was a stray and
wandered onto his farm about three to four months before August 17, 2011.
Deciding to keep the dog, Yong built a shelter
for it as it was chasing the cats in his farm and destroying his crops.
He chained the dog in the shelter with a metal
chain for three months while feeding it leftover food.
Yong claims he only noticed the open wound on
the neck of the dog about two weeks before August 17.
Court documents said that Yong merely washed
the wound with Dettol despite observing the wound to be necrotic and infested
with maggots.
Investigations showed that he did not take the
dog to a veterinarian although the dog's condition did not improve.
Yong believed that the wound should heal
itself eventually.
SPCA officers took the dog to the Animal
Clinic at Clementi where it was put down.
Yong could have been fined up to $10,000
and/or jailed for up to 12 months.
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