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SINGAPORE \u2013 A man was handed an animal cruelty charge on Sept 23 following the death of a standard poodle<\/span><\/a> after it was allegedly left unattended for about 1\u00bd hours at a pet grooming facility.<\/p>\n Chan Yew Heng, 51, was a director at Pawsome.sg in Tanjong Katong Road at the time of the alleged offence.<\/p>\n He is accused of committing the offence between 9.15am and 10.45am on Oct 30, 2025.<\/p>\n According to court documents, no one was attending to the dog, Buddy, when its forelegs were trapped in a playpen, resulting in extensive traumatic injury to the limbs.<\/p>\n The dog, which was around four years old, died soon after.<\/p>\n Chan is expected to plead guilty on Oct 21.<\/p>\n A first-time offender convicted of the crime can be jailed for up to two years, fined up to $40,000 or both.<\/p>\n In November 2025, The Straits Times reported that Buddy\u2019s owner\u00a0Tanish Dhillon had said\u00a0that a transport service picked up the white dog at\u00a0around 8.30am on Oct 30 that year.<\/p>\n Buddy was later dropped off at Pawsome\u00a0at around\u00a09.15am.<\/p>\n Dhillon added that at\u00a011.45am, he received a call from the\u00a0grooming facility, telling him that\u00a0Buddy had died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A man was handed an animal cruelty charge on Sept 23 following the death of a standard poodle after it was allegedly left…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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