Animal cruelty probe saught after starving cow discovered
The Liemrick Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is calling on the Department of Agriculture to carry out an investigation into animal cruelty after a cow was alledged to have been abandoned in an industrial estate and left to starve for three days.
The cow was discovered on Thursday at the Crossagalla Industrial Estate on the Ballysimon Road on Thursday, enquiries made to locals revealed that the cow was there since Christmas Day.
Noel Shinnors, from the LSPCA has told the Irish Independent, “There was barbed wire ingrained in the bottom of one of its legs, which caused one of the feet to swell to the size of a balloon,”
It is claimed by the owners of the animal that it became injured after it escaped from a field, but questions remain as to why it was left in the estate for three days without hay or water.
A vet who was called to the scene recommended the cow be destroyed, so it will be slaughtered next week.
The same independent story reports that the Hyde Road office of the LSPCA was bombarded with calls over the Christmas with reports of dogs being abandoned at the roadside.