A Lancaster guy has actually been imprisoned for triggering unneeded suffering to a Patterdale terrier.
He was likewise discovered to have actually breached a long-lasting restriction on owning animals when the dog and ferrets were discovered at his residential or commercial property.
Joseph Shaun Whittam of Greenset Close, Lancaster, has actually been imprisoned for 23 weeks after appearing at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court on Friday January 20.
He was formerly due to stand trial for the offenses however altered his pleas to guilty on the very first day of the trial.
The 32-year-old was imprisoned for triggering unneeded suffering to a brown Patterdale terrier called Thugly.
He stopped working to offer veterinary treatment for injuries after it was assaulted by a wild mammal.
The court likewise discovered that he did not take actions to make sure that Thugly’s requirements were fulfilled because he let him take part in an encounter with a wild mammal, resulting in him ending up being hurt.
He likewise remained in breach of a disqualification order which prohibited him for keeping animals for life by keeping 4 ferrets and the dog..
Joseph Shaun Whittam was discovered to be keeping ferrets regardless of long-lasting restriction on keeping animals ( Image: RSPCA)
Officers from the RSPCA’s Unique Operations System signed up with officers from Lancashire Authorities when they carried out a warrant at an address in Lancaster on April 1 2021, due to a believed breach of a disqualification order.
Whittam was disqualified from keeping all animals for life by magistrates in December 2018. When officers checked out the residential or commercial property and found 3 dogs and 4 ferrets.
Injuries on a Patterdale terrier called Thugly who was assaulted by a wild mammal. ( Image: RSPCA)
In his witness declaration, RSPCA inspector Jason Bowles stated: “In the backyard there were 3 hutches and 2 of those hutches were included in a brick-built shelter and were placed one on top of the other.
” In the leading hutch, there were 3 adult ferrets that seemed in typical body condition.
” Nearby to your home by the back entrance there was a hutch by itself with a single adult ferret inside that seemed in typical body condition.
” I was notified by a policeman that this ferret had actually simply been moved to this hutch at the start of the warrant being carried out as it was loose.”.
A lady at the address declared to own 3 dogs that were discovered at the home while Whittam confessed owning the ferrets. He was informed to rehome them right away..
After collecting proof, Whittam was summoned with offenses connecting to breaching his restriction in connection with the ferrets and for keeping a dog..
At sentencing Whittam was handed 4 custodial sentences for the 4 offenses that will all run simultaneously.
He was sentenced to 23 weeks of custody for 2 offenses in concerns to Thugly and sentenced to 18 weeks of custody for each of the breaches of disqualification order that will likewise run simultaneously.
