Abandoned litter of puppies in Invercargill Park with their throats slit

WARNING: distressing content.

A $ 2,000 information reward is offered following the discovery of eight pups with their throats slit in an Invercargill park.

Otatara resident Kim Durry and her husband have walked their dogs near Sandy Point three or four times a week for as long as she can remember.

On Friday afternoon, they saw something they just “couldn’t take.”

“I thought it was a rat and then I realized ‘no it’s not,’ it’s a puppy.

“Then I saw the others lying there all with their throats slit.”

Since then, the animal advocacy group Paw Justice had offered a $ 2,000 reward to anyone who could provide information about the cull.

Dumped into a wide-open clearing, Durry said she was terrified that someone, especially a child, would run into them.

“I don’t want my children to see that, we are teaching children to be kind and then they see that people are capable of doing that.

“My husband works in the butcher shop, he’s used to blood and guts, but even he couldn’t stand it.”

The couple knew they had to do something, but they had no materials to relocate them.

“I took one to move it and its head fell off, it was hanging by a thread.”