Tuesday 22 April 2014

Battered before her eyes

Carcassonne. Elle adopte le chien battu sous ses yeux

A  bad  doggy story in the Depeche  turned into a good story. A young lady councillor in Carcassone watched as a man took to savagely beating his dog in front of her eyes. She quickly phoned the brigade canine  and the brigade anticriminalité , who came. The man had by this time abandoned the dog who was left with a fractured paw.
The man was found and arrested with the help of the SPA  (an animal welfare organisation)
The dog  a cross border collie had to undergo surgery but to end on a happy note the young lady who had saved the dog, decided to adopt it as a family pet.
Val says  apart from being a doggy story I was interested by the phrase " battu sous ses yeux" -  "battered before her  very eyes."