{"id":49723,"date":"2025-09-29T08:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49723\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:24:07","slug":"auckland-puppies-rescued-after-alleged-abuse-man-faces-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49723\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland puppies rescued after alleged abuse, man faces charges"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cIt\u2019s senseless why someone would want to bring harm upon these young pups,\u201d Plunkett said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to acknowledge those members of the public who called police immediately, allowing us to prevent further harm.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old man was charged with ill-treatment under the Animal Welfare Act and was due to appear in the Auckland District Court. <\/p>\n
The puppies are believed to be between 4 and 6 months old and of Staffordshire bull terrier type.<\/p>\n
The puppies are now at one of Auckland Council\u2019s Animal Management shelters. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
Auckland Council\u2019s regional shelter manager Nikki Cripps said this type of incident is all too common.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese puppies didn\u2019t ask to be born and they certainly didn\u2019t deserve to end up in danger,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf people would simply desex their dogs we wouldn\u2019t see this endless cycle of unwanted litters and needless suffering. Dog ownership is not a casual commitment, it\u2019s a serious lifelong responsibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegistration, desexing, microchipping and proper care aren\u2019t optional extras \u2013 they\u2019re the bare minimum. If you can\u2019t commit to those four things, then you should not have a dog. The cost of neglect isn\u2019t just a bylaw breach \u2013 it\u2019s terrified, vulnerable puppies paying the price.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s senseless why someone would want to bring harm upon these young pups,\u201d Plunkett said. \u201cI\u2019d like to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1903,74,1554,7818,51,1558,1873,6119,305,42,5158,43238,43,43239,43237,18560,9636,2846,1529,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-49723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-abuse","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-allegedly","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-charges","tag-faces","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-man","tag-mistreating","tag-news","tag-parnell","tag-puppies","tag-rescued","tag-spotted","tag-them","tag-three","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}