Police
investigate after animal welfare group shares social media footage of four
attacks on possums in Queensland
Australian
Associated Press
Tue 5 Mar
2019 06.13 GMT
A
teenager has bitten chunks of fur and flesh out of a possum’s rump in one of
several disturbing attacks on possums in Queensland.
The RSPCA
has shared footage of four attacks, all involving possums, after concerned
people found them on social media.
The most
disturbing one shows a teenager being egged on by mates in Brisbane as
he bites and chews flesh torn from one animal with his teeth.
The
mammal’s leg was moving and it appeared to be alive.
In
another incident in far-north Queensland, a possum caught in a net is hurled to
a waiting pack of dogs that tear it to pieces.
No
arrests have been made in relation to the incidents, but police are
investigating.
“These
are quite deliberate and premeditated acts of animal cruelty and show a
complete lack of empathy,” RSPCA Queensland spokesperson Michael Beatty said.
“Without
meaning to sound too melodramatic, the links between this type of cruelty and
acts of violence toward humans have been well researched over the years.”
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