A man cautioned a dog owner to not have “anybody in your house” after putting their dogs through a ‘dreadful’ and ‘agonizing’ ear-cropping treatment.
Joshua Ryan Kwiathawski, 25, and Jamie Evans, 30, pleaded guilty to enabling the prohibited practice to be performed on their bull-type dogs Riga and Ace after officers took messages in between the set talking about concealing the animals to prevent being reported. They likewise stopped working to look for take care of their dogs’ injuries following the crop.
In a series of texts on WhatsApp, Evans asked when he might “publish a picture” of Riga, to which Kwiathawski responded: “Not for 4-6 weeks brother, nobody in your gaff you don’t understand,” Wigan Magistrates Court heard as the set were sentenced on Tuesday (May 9), MEN reports.
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Evans asked: “What do you mean mate”, and Kwiathawski responded: “Don’t have anybody in your house or seeing the dog you don’t understand, if they see fresh injuries they might report you.
“Only post on your private snapchat mate people who you trust and if anyone asks obvs the dog’s imported.”
The court heard that the RSPCA realised after authorities took Kwiathawski’s phone in an unassociated offense, which included images of Ace with cropped ears. Two warrants were later on performed by the RSPCA and authorities where a 2nd phone was taken which included the stressful messages in between the 2 males speaking about Ace and Riga having their ears unlawfully cropped.
There were images on their phones of both dogs as puppies with complete ears, along with pictures of the dogs after having the treatment.
The court likewise heard that Kwiathawski had actually encouraged Evans to put talc on Riga’s ears, with one voicenote stating: “Once you’ve took the scabs off and talced his ears he will look exactly like Ace does on that picture where his ears are dead white and they are up tall and you can hardly see any scabs. It just looks like loads of talc on the outsides of his ears. That’s what it will look like bro.”
Evans responded stating: “Sure he’s took this crop too far back on him.”
Kwiathawski, of Rose Avenue, Wigan, and Evans, of no set home, were handed a 23-week jail sentence and prohibited them from keeping animals for 15 years.
Speaking after sentencing, RSPCA inspector Emma Dingley said: “Ear cropping is a dreadful practice which has definitely no advantages for the dogs and can trigger them long-lasting health, behavioural and social issues.
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