Ducks and pigeons mutilated: police are looking for animal abusers

Ducks and pigeons mutilated: police are looking for animal abusers

Mutilated ducks and pigeons have been found in the city of Salzburg since last year. It has been just a few days since the latest cases of animal cruelty. On February 7, two ducks were walking on the Staatsbrücke with bleeding wounds. Unknown people had torn the skin and flesh from their stomachs. The animals had to be euthanized.

On February 1st, a drake with severed wings was discovered near Leopoldskroner Weiher. Any help came too late for him, too. Both of the drake’s wings had been cut off, presumably with poultry shears. The police are looking for the previously unknown animal abusers. “The perpetrators have not yet been identified,” said a police spokeswoman on Thursday. This also applies in the case of a total of eight abused pigeons.

“Sorrowful Dying Intended”

On January 24, a woman from Salzburg filed a complaint with the police. Five pigeons with cut flight feathers were found in the Itzling district. “The mutilated pigeons are completely helpless. Their painful death seems to have been intended by the perpetrator,” said Hans Lutsch from ARGE Stadttauben Salzburg.

In the summer of the previous year, three pigeons with wantonly removed flight feathers aroused the pity of passers-by in Goethestrasse in Itzling. “From July 2 to 4, every day at noon, an injured pigeon was found,” said the police spokeswoman. The complaint was filed on July 5th.

Only vague hints so far

The president of the Austrian animal rescue service, Oswin Mair, suspects that in the case of the ducks, whose skin was torn from their breasts, at least two perpetrators can be assumed due to the animal’s expected violent defense reaction. The animal torturers are likely to be out and about at night so as not to be recognized. “So far only very vague indications have been received, no concrete ones,” said Mair. Animal rescue patrols potential crime scenes. “This increases the control pressure.”

The ducks on the Salzach and on the pond are used to walkers and are therefore easier to catch than in the wild. The president advises anyone who observes a suspect to call the police. “We are notified by the police and move out to rescue the animal.”

Source: Nachrichten

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