A former animal seller in Japan was arrested Thursday on suspicion of suffocating to death three no-longer fertile dogs that he kept for breeding purposes, police said Thursday.Yukio Watabe, 81, is alleged to have violated the law on animal welfare by using plastic bags to seal in and asphyxiate three dogs in cages at the rearing facility on his property in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, between around May 6 and 12.Watabe said that "keeping alive dogs that can't procreate costs money, so I killed with the intention of taking responsibility," according to the police. But he also suggest…READ FULL ARTICLE
