PAN denounces man who mutilated dog and confessed on SIC

PAN spokesperson Inês Sousa Real announced that she will file a complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office against a man who revealed on the Terra Nossa program, presented by César Mourão on SIC, that he amputated a paw from a dog that was “very fast”.

The party leader stressed in a video published on social media that this action “causes great suffering and agony to the animal” and also warned that she will contact SIC to prevent future trivialization of animal violence, “punishable with a prison sentence of up to two years”.

The man's story came up in a conversation with comedian César Mourão, who was recording the first episode of the ninth season of the series in São Pedro do Sul. “[The dog] was very fast, so I cut off one of his paws,” he began by saying. Amid the presenter's laughter, he continued: “I cut off one of his paws so he would run less after the partridge.”

After the owner explained that the dog helped him hunt partridges, César Mourão asked if it wouldn’t be useful, in this case, to “run fast”. The man replied that it wouldn’t, because the animal scared the partridges away, which would get up “early”, making it impossible for the hunter to hit them.

“I warned [the dog]: ‘Look, I’ll cut off your paw’”, he recalled. Despite the comedian’s outburst — “poor dog”, he said — the man insisted: “my friend, these are lives”. The program generated outrage on social media and reached the party led by Inês Sousa Real, who quickly expressed their intention to see the alleged aggressor criminally punished.

“We received this complaint about a video circulating on social media of a guy who appears on César Mourão’s show as having mistreated a dog. He amputated its paw, which causes great suffering and agony to the animal. Mistreatment of animals is a crime in Portugal,” said the PAN’s sole member of parliament.

“If the facts he confessed are proven”, Inês Sousa Real wants this man to be identified, charged and convicted. She asks that any pets he may have, in addition to the mutilated dog, be taken away from him. “It makes no sense for them to remain with the alleged aggressor”.

The political leader said she will contact SIC, “because even though it is an entertainment program, laughter cannot trivialize cruelty against animals”.

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