Owner, SPCA Plan to Lay Charges After 'Traumatic Event', Writes Yolande Stander

A GARDEN Route herbalist who says she is battling to come to terms with the trauma of her dog being shot and killed by police will institute a civil claim following what she says was an extremely traumatic event.

The dog was shot when police raided Sharon Price's home in search of dagga.

While the police claim the 11-year-old pitbull named Izzy was shot in self-defence, Price, of Great Brak River near Mossel Bay, and her family believe otherwise.

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