Trainee inspector Thabang Mabaso received a complaint of overcrowding and dogs not being cared for adequately at a home in Sunnyridge.
He managed to make contact with the owner and arranged to get access to the house on June 6.
Upon his arrival, Mabaso was shocked to find a large number of Maltese terriers living inside the house.
The floors of the home were covered in dog waste, in some cases centimetres deep and
Mabaso immediately issued a 24-hour warning to the owner to clean up the house.
“It would have been a Herculean task to adequately clean the home in this timeframe, given its state, but Mabaso felt that it was also unfair for the dogs to continue living in that environment,” said Burt Coetzee, manager and senior inspector at the Germiston SPCA.
