A disturbing scene unfolded on Cayman Beach in Gordon’s Bay as several dead piglets and calves washed up onto the shore over the weekend, reports Cape {town} Etc.
Gordon’s Bay resident Nico van Niekerk claims to have stumbled upon the unsettling site when he visited the beach around 12pm on Friday morning.
He confirms that there had been about seven or eight piglets on the beach, which he suspects had been washed down from the canal.
The Helderberg division of the Animal Welfare Society (AWS) has since collected the dead animals.
The AWS manager, Julia Evans, suspects that the piglets initially came from the Vlakteplaas, as she explains there are a lot of animals located there due to major work involving the river, which runs from the area into the sea.
Evans further stated that she had previously been called to the site because of a sow which had given birth on the banks resulting in piglets landing in the water.
She believes that the same thing happened to these piglets over the weekend.
Locals in the area took to Facebook to share their concerns.
Comments ranged from ‘it’s sickening’ to ‘ it’s a very strange scenario.’
‘It looks like they may have been stillborn and were thrown into the river, sadly. It’s not nice to see at all, but unless you are vegetarian, this is what you eat’ said Helderberg Ocean Awareness Movement founder Lisa Starr to IOL.
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