Dogs 'executed' for jailbreak

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How Serbian officials treat dogs.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2792089.stm

 

 

Dogs

'executed' for jailbreak

Officials

at a prison in northern Serbia

have killed two guard dogs for not barking when five inmates escaped, reports

say.

Local media reported that the dogs had been " found

guilty " of not alerting the guards to the get-away as they had been

trained to do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The two 15-year-old Sarplaninac dogs -

also known as Yugoslav Shepherds - were shot dead at the dog pound in the town

of Sombor, 150 kilometres (93 miles) north-west of Belgrade.

Local animal rights activists have protested against the shooting.

 

" The dogs did not deserve the death penalty and cannot

ultimately be responsible for the escape, " said Branko

Pasko from the animal rights group Arka.

The dogs could have been sent into retirement or put to sleep with

an injection, she said.

Local reports did not say where the guards were at the time of the

break-out.

The five inmates escaped by digging a hole under a prison wall.

Three of the fugitives were later recaptured.