Greyhounds...
...Found in Appalling Conditions
England - 20.11.09 Greytexploitations.com
A
man has been jailed for 3 months after being found guilty of starving
two greyhounds in what Judge Desmond Zaidan has described as a
‘difficult and disturbing’ case.
"They are desperate, they are really bad," commented the judge. "You can literally count every single bone on these dogs."
Twenty year old Thomas Daly from Carbury, pleaded guilty to two charges of animal cruelty before Kildare District Court.
Anonymous
tip offs to both Paws Animal Rescue and Orchard Greyhound Sanctuary
prompted the ISPCA to investigate the complaints. Inspector Conor
Dowling told the court that on October 7 last year, they found a white
female dog shut into a dirty cattle trailer that had not been cleaned
for two weeks and another dog living in a pen alongside with no shelter
and which was strewn with faeces.
Mr
Daly told the court that he lived with his parents in a remote area and
had not been at school since he was 14 – occasionally working as a farm
labourer. He said a friend had rang and asked him if he wanted the
dogs, which were later left by his friend ‘at the top of the lane’.
The
greyhounds are earmarked and clearly bred for racing but the Irish
Greyhound Board could find no current records of previous owners.
Sentencing
Mr Daly to 3 months imprisonment for each offence – to run concurrently
- Judge Desmond Zaidan ordered Mr Daly be assessed and receives
counselling from a psychologist regarding cruelty to animals.
Along
with the custodial sentence, Mr Daly was banned from keeping dogs or
any other animals for life and also fined €750 on each count of cruelty
and ordered to pay ISPCA costs of €454.
Both greyhounds have now successfully been rehabilitated and re-homed.
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