Police dogs 'being starved'
2007-2-14

Cape Town

Police dogs at Maitland dog unit are said to be suffering from severe malnutrition, so much so that some are eating their own faeces because of a vitamin deficiency.

There also have been cases in which the dogs have sniffed out people's food rather than drugs or explosives, showing signs of severe hunger pangs.

Natasha Duminy of the South African Police Union (Sapu) spoke to Die Burger about the state of affairs at the dog unit.

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Oh, that's awful Why on earth would they do that?

Poor doggies:(

Because if they fed the dogs more then the government would have less money to steal.

:( Kind of ironic the name of the paper though.

That is so sad and unfortunate.