Animal abuse must stop

A few days ago, I was disturbed and traumatized by dogfighting I witnessed in an informal settlement in Ivory Park near Midrand.

- Masoka Dube

This happened just a few months after witnessing an incident in which a puppy was mourning its mother in Protea Glen, Soweto.

After the puppy incident, I wrote a column expressing how my love for dogs was gradually developing.

In that column, I explained how the pet had to go through the death of its mother without the involvement of its owner.

Its mother's carcass was on a dumping site and the puppy had spent three days camping next to it hoping that she would miraculously wake up, but to no avail.

I know some black people from rural areas or informal settlements usually don't care much about pets, especially dogs. Yet many of them keep them in their homes just to protect them against intruders.

When I witnessed the Ivory Park dogfighting match, I was visiting a friend in Midrand and we decided to go to a park at the informal settlement.