A young dog who was found dumped in a yellow Aldi shopping bag has been put to sleep, despite being on the road to recovery. Stanley was discovered "hours from death" abandoned in a park in Peterborough last month, and was taken in by the RSPCA, where dedicated animal carers began to heal him back to health.
But heartbreakingly, the one-year-old pup was identified as a suspected banned breed and later typed by police as a pit bull terrier - meaning he had to be euthanised under Section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act. The RSPCA is "devastated" by Stanley's death after doing "everything legally possible" to try to save him.
