A 36-year-old man was arrested on September 19 in the Marvila parish, Lisbon, by the Lisbon Metropolitan Command of the Public Security Police (PSP) on suspicion of committing a crime of animal cruelty.
Police officers on patrol were alerted by a citizen who had heard an animal “whining, emitting sounds of agony”. Upon arriving at the scene, they found a dog “tied by the neck with a chain, with multiple wounds covered in flies and clear signs of malnutrition”. The animal was chained in a shack, “without conditions to rest or move around, as the chain was just over a meter long”.
They also noted that there was a container nearby with “pieces of rice in a state of putrefaction, leading to the belief that it had not been fed for several days”.
PSP officers read the dog’s microchip, obtaining the owner’s details, and contacted him. The man “completely dismissed the situation and the state the dog was in”.
After being repeatedly “informed that he was committing a crime of animal cruelty, he was arrested”. The dog was rescued and delivered to the Casa do Animal association.
The man was notified to appear at the Public Prosecutor’s Services and is awaiting trial while released.
