Dog shooting highlights Sri Lanka’s need for stricter animal cruelty laws

Mongabay
Oct 14, 2022, 3:29 pm152 pts
COLOMBO — The horrific fatal shooting of a 1 1/2-year-old Rottweiler in Sri Lanka has sparked fresh concerns about the country’s outdated animal cruelty laws. Rexie went missing in the early hours of Aug. 8 in Galgamuwa, some 170 kilometers (105 miles) northeast of the capital Colombo and was found in a…

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