Tauranga SPCA animal welfare inspector Jason Blair says he would be happy to be out of a job if that meant there were no more animal cruelty cases in the region.

Now called Trooper, this puppy had its ears cut with scissors.

He is continuing to investigate Tauranga's latest animal cruelty case, which involved an eight-week-old puppy having its ears cut off with scissors.

Jason says his investigation is centred on a particular area in Tauranga and he is building evidence up to effect an arrest.

'We will reach a point where we may have to go with what I've got, but at this stage I'm hoping to get more so I'm waiting for the file to build,” says Jason.

The pitbull puppy, now named Trooper, is recovering well with a Tauranga foster family.

Jason says he tackles animal cruelty every day, but this particular incident is an extreme case.

'Some are neglectful things. A lot of it involves education, but in this case they went out of their way to purposely do something and it's those sorts of cases that are frustrating.”