Animal Welfare Department to sue 'aggressive' dog owner

Animal welfare officers this morning rescued six puppies and three kittens from a site at Mtarfa and ordered the owner to improve conditions for his remaining 15 dogs and bitches after a raid this morning.

Animal Welfare Officer Godric Marsden said the owner had reacted aggressively to the animal welfare officers on the site and the police had to be called in. When the man was told that the dogs should be neutered, he replied that he killed the puppies.

The department is to sue the man on the basis of his behaviour to the department's officials and his claim.

Mr Marsden said that the dogs lived in poor conditions, using old metal tanks as their kennels.