Tom Mongan, 28, and brother William Mongan, 40, offered pets on-line from rented Airbnb properties throughout Glasgow.
Two puppy farmers jailed for promoting sick dogs are to attraction their nine-month jail phrases.
Tom Mongan, 28, and brother William Mongan, 40, offered pets on-line from rented Airbnb properties throughout Glasgow.
The dogs had been present in poor form and had been found dwelling in unsanitary situations by SSPCA inspectors.
Some of the 11 pets the pair had been answerable for had been later put down as a consequence of sick well being.
Tom Mongan pled responsible at Glasgow Sheriff Court to a few prices of inflicting pointless struggling whereas William Mongan admitted two prices.
The prices span between December 2020 and February 2021.
Appeal lodged
The brothers – who’re of the Irish traveller neighborhood – had been sentenced to 9 months behind bars every final week by Sheriff Mark McGuire.
The sheriff mentioned: “Each of you pled responsible to what could be described as animal cruelty on 11 separate dogs.
“What I heard is what the general public would know as puppy farming.
“It will need to have been apparent the dogs had been unwell and the situations they had been stored in was poor – you took no steps to get assist for these animals.
“The motivation was for monetary acquire – every canine was priced at over £1,000.
“It was clearly greed and it introduced unimaginable distress to those that sadly purchased them.
“I’m happy there isn’t a different applicable sentence than custody.”
The pair, from Belfast, had been additionally disqualified from protecting animals for 10 years.
The two brothers have since lodged an attraction of their sentence with a listening to to take place later this month.
