Graham Stephens, of Broad Street, Bromyard, has been jailed for eight months and banned from conserving animals for all times after pleading responsible to eight offences underneath the Animal Welfare Act.
Shocking photos present the appalling situations animals lived in at Little Meadow Animal Rescue, which Stephens was the proprietor of.
Around 35 had been held in a single room in a static caravan after a warrant was executed on the property by West Mercia Police in March 2022 resulting from repeated experiences of animal neglect.
Little Meadow Animal Rescue was initially arrange in 2010 and taken care of numerous animals.
Donkeys had been present in a muddy paddock with overgrown ft. (Image: RSPCA)This month’s enchantment listening to at Hereford Crown Court discovered he had precipitated pointless struggling by failing to supply acceptable farriery, dental remedy, or tackle a heavy lice infestation on three donkeys.
He had additionally failed to supply acceptable farriery, remedy for a bacterial an infection, and a heavy lice infestation for a fourth donkey.
The animals had been stored in a caravan caked with faeces. (Image: RSPCA)It was additionally discovered he precipitated pointless struggling to a Chinese crested canine after failing to supply veterinary remedy for an eye fixed situation and dental illness.
Included in these accounts had been conserving two rabbits and a guinea pig in a faeces-covered cage of inadequate measurement, conserving 4 tawny owls and just a little owl in filthy cages that had been too small and too near dogs, and confining a squirrel in a grimy cage that was too small and too near dogs.
In an announcement to the court docket, RSPCA performing chief inspector Thea Kerrison and inspector Suzi Smith stated the seven donkeys and two alpacas discovered on the web site had little to no grazing and had been consuming soiled, moist straw, which had been laid as a dry base to face on.
Owls had been present in faeces-caked cages in a static caravan (Image: RSPCA)
It added that damaged barbed wire fencing, scrap metallic, and “many hazards” had been discovered within the space.
Inspector Smith stated, “you would odor the stench, ammonia, and faeces” as quickly as they opened the door to the static caravan, the place they discovered faeces caked on the ground, dogs each unfastened and in cages, some stacked on prime of one another, caged rabbits, a budgie, a squirrel, and owls with feathers “caked in faeces”.
Two owls had been put down after a veterinary evaluation. At the identical time, the squirrel was additionally put to sleep as gray squirrels can’t be launched again into the wild underneath invasive species laws.
After being rescued from the registered charity’s web site, the remaining animals have been rehomed or housed.
