Dog found nailed to wooden cross

A priest walking along Mosta’s Main Street was yesterday confronted with the macabre sight of a dead dog nailed to a cross made of wood – both upside down – on the front door of a vacant residence.

The police said a shape of a halo had been placed on the poor creature’s head. A note had been left by whoever carried out the hideous act saying the hardship he had gone through was worse than that suffered by the dog.

The police are investigating.

The incident was the latest in a series of incidents involving extreme cruelty to dogs in recent months.

On September 30, a jogger in Kalkara heard movements in a skip and found a boxer dog close to suffocation tied inside in a black garbage bag. The boxer, named Gaia, died later in the day.

Last May, another dog, later named Star, was found buried alive in a field with nose poking through the soil gasping for air. The dog had been shot in the head and died three weeks later.

The following month, three dead Pharoah hounds Klieb tal-Fenek were found dead tied together in the sea off Marsalforn.