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The dog who won Britain’s Ugliest Dog contest in 2005, Mugly, was found in a public park being attacked by a gang.  Apparently the passer-by saw the dog being hit with a stick, kicked and being punched.  And just for the record, the dog is about the size of a cat so it’s a very small dog.

The owner of the dog, Bev Nicholson, says that Mugly escaped from a ground floor window and that the passer-by recognized the dog from posters she saw around the neighborhood.

Nicholson says:

“They had pulled out a little tuft of hair he had on his neck…It was the only hair he had and they even managed to take off one of his eyebrows. I can’t even work out how they would have done that.  He’d never gone missing before and you worry about letting him out because of what he looks like and the fact he’s so friendly.  You just can’t think why these people would do such a horrible thing. Part of me thinks they might not have even realised that he was a dog because of him having no hair so they just bullied him.  It’s horrible because he loves people so much he probably thought it was just a game and all they were interested in was hurting him.  He was really shaken and cowered in to me when he got back to me. He was swollen and bruised around his face and rear end.”

Adela Navarro, a local vet, said: “He had a few cuts and was bruised and a little shaken up.”  A little shaken up?  The poor guy is probably going to have issues with humans in the future and who could blame him?  What kind of people beat up a small innocent dog?

But then again, we live in a world that it’s not okay to abuse a dog but it IS okay to abuse and slaughter billions of “other” animals a year.  Maybe that contributes to the confusion about the rights of animals, what do you think?

via telegraph.co.uk