Barbaric owners fed pet bulldog poisoned sausages and stabbed it to death because it had become 'aggressive' after giving birth to puppies
BIRKENHEAD, ENGLAND: In what could be described as an act of sheer brutality, a woman and her partner confessed to a court of feeding their American bulldog sausages poisoned with anti-freeze before stabbing it to death.
Leila Horvarth and her boyfriend, Norbert Farkas have been found guilty of inflicting gruesome violence on the dog, Luna, who had recently given birth to a litter of 12 puppies.
According to Daily Mail, Wirral Magistrates' Court heard the dog died under grotesque circumstances as Farkas struck the animal with a metal weightlifting bar in self-defense and to protect Horvarth.
Reports say Horvarth spent time researching how to kill the dog and lured Luna to their back garden feeding it the poisoned sausages.
She thought Luna would die quickly after being poisoned. At the same time, she also feared neighbors calling the cops as the animal clung to life making strange noises.
In addition, she also confessed to taking a kitchen knife and stabbing Luna in the throat.
The dog was later wrapped in bin bags and dumped in an alleyway behind their Parkside Road home in Birkenhead.
Anthony Joynes, the RSPCA inspector, was contacted by environmental health officers to see the horrific scene, and he discovered the dog covered in live maggots.
On April 5, Farkas had initially claimed that Luna wasn't his dog but later admitted that it was his pet.
He said that the dog had attacked him and that this led to a panic attack and he hit Luna with the metal weightlifting bar in self-defense.
He suggested that Luna had become aggressive after giving birth to the puppies and that was why the duo had decided to kill it.
A vet report, however, said Farak would have suffered serious injuries had the dog attacked him the way he claimed.
Thomas Hanlon, their lawyer, said the couple took full responsibility for their actions.
He added that the pair had been targeted after their animals were seized by the RSPCA.
He went on to say that a petrol bomb was thrown at their home, forcing the couple to leave in the night soon after the attack.
Meanwhile, district Judge, Nicholas Sanders, termed the case as one to be of "unimaginable cruelty".
He told the duo: "You struck the dog with a metal bar, and then you poisoned it with anti-freeze before stabbing it. It is hard to imagine a more cruel way of dealing with an animal."
They were sentenced to ten weeks in jail and were banned for keeping animals for life.