A SMALLHOLDER has admitted unwell treating greater than 200 dogs after RSPCA inspectors discovered them residing in appalling circumstances at ramshackle kennels in Devon.
A canine which was saved in unfit circumstances by Diana Curtis. Image: RSPCA
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Diana Curtis saved dogs at two completely different places which have been discovered to be underfed, emaciated, moist and chilly once they have been raided by the RSPCA and native authority inspectors.
A bearded collie was in apparent ache from a dislocated shoulder, a black and tan terrier had an injured mouth, a collie had a pores and skin situation and a sheepdog had an ulcerated eye.
None had obtained the veterinary remedy they wanted.
Curtis, aged 66, has a protracted historical past of unwell treating dogs and has beforehand been discovered with 100 dogs in poor circumstances and made topic of a Criminal Behaviour Order limiting her to solely eight animals.
Curtis, of Berry’s Cross, Peters Marland, close to Hatherleigh, pleaded responsible to seven counts of inflicting pointless struggling to animals at her home and one other set of kennels at Chulmleigh Cross, close to Chittlehamholt.
All the offences have been dedicated in February and March final yr.
A roll-up cost included 191 dogs at Chittlehamholt.
The others concerned six nursing bitches which have been saved with out sufficient diet and confined in an unsuitable setting and 5 circumstances of failing to offer veterinary look after eight different dogs.
They have been a bearded collie with a dislocated shoulder; a collie with an ulcerated eye; a tan and white feminine terrier which had a diseased mouth and neurological circumstances and a male collie and 4 different dogs with pores and skin circumstances or wounds.
A ramshackle kennel utilized by Diana Curtis. Image: RSPCA
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Judge Stephen Climie adjourned sentence at Exeter Crown Court till June 4 and launched Curtis on bail.
He instructed her the circumstances move the custody threshold however ordered a probation report which is able to recommend various punishments.
Curtis is already banned from holding animals after being convicted of ill-treating horses, chickens and geese by Exeter Magistrates Court in December.
She was jailed for 16 weeks, suspended for 12 months and ordered to pay £10,000 prices.
