PETALING JAYA, May 14 — A man allegedly shot arrows at a dog that would not back away from his house gate last night, although the creature was seen wearing a collar.
According to The Star Online, one resident at Taman Sinaran in Taming Jaya here saw two arrows lodged in the dog’s body — one in its front leg and another in its back — when he arrived home from an outing.
“By the time I got to the dog, my neighbour had already shot two arrows at it,” Allan Chong was quoted as saying.
“I saw the man holding the bow and arrows and approaching the dog to shoot it again,” he added.
Chong said he managed to move the dog away from his neighbour’s gate before the man could shoot it again.
He added that he did not recognise the dog but it was using a collar and was likely lost and looking for its way home.
Chong was later advised by the police to lodge a report on the incident.
Animal activist Melinda Joy Gomez said the man should have found other ways to chase the dog away without hurting it.
“He could have asked the help of neighbours who were dog owners or spray the poor animal with water instead of shooting it with arrows,” she was quoted as saying.
Gomez is the manager of the Malaysian Dogs Deserve Better (MDDD) project, a canine welfare initiative spearheaded by the Community Development and Integration Initiative (CDII).
