Woman Starved Dog to Death as she was ‘Too Knackered’ to Care for it
Posted By Ryan O'Meara Date: 9/05 Posted Under: Animal Cruelty, Canine ColumnsA 27 year old woman locked her friend’s dog in a bedroom where the animal starved to death as she was ‘too knackered’ to care for the animal.
Ruth Carlisle locked Snuggles up for three weeks and denied the Labrador food and water in that period, magistrates in Ely, Cambs heard.As ‘punishment’ she was ordered to complete 60 hours of unpaid work and pay £250 costs.
At the risk of editorialising, Jesus wept!!
60 hours unpaid work and £250?
For this? For starving a dog to death?
Again, at the risk of exposing a smidge of editorial bias, would it be too much to hope that this heartless bitch someday, somehow gets a sample of her own medicine?
What effort would it have taken to have given this dog the bare essentials to survive?
Carlisle told the court: “I just couldn’t hack it. I didn’t have the time. I had to go to YMCA for a training course and had to get up early and sometimes I was knackered when I came back.”I was worried when she stopped barking, but I did not want to get in there and find something.”
Magistrate Dr Christine Shaw said the dog’s owner, Audrey Clark was equally to blame for the neglect.
She said: “You said you trusted Miss Carlisle to look after your dog, but you said yourself she could not even look after herself.
“And you said it was all right when you heard the dog had not been exercised for three weeks.”
Clark was fined £100, ordered to pay £500 costs and a £15 victim surcharge. She was also banned from keeping animals for life - but was allowed to keep up to three cats.
So what, cats are not ‘animals’ now?
If I get ‘banned from driving’ is it still OK if I do my motoring in a Volvo?
Part of the reason we have so much animal cruelty in this nation is because of cases like this. A callous, heartless and totally avoidable situation has seen a dog die in what one can only imagine to be a horrific, drawn out, painful manner. And the guilty parties who caused it, could have stopped and have been unable to adequately justify it have been treated to the most lenient ‘punishments’ imaginable.
Please, please, please
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Author DetailsRyan O'Meara is editor-in-chief of K9 Magazine, the lifestyle magazine for dog lovers. He lives in the East Midlands with his own two dogs, Mia and Chloe. - See this author's webpage
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Had she been too tired to exercise the dog every day, I would have almost understood (though as a vet, I wouldn’t condone it) but how can you be too tired to feed an animal? Do you not feed yourself? How long does it take to put some food and water in a bowl?
How can such a person possibly be allowed to keep their cats? Poor cats. They must get the rawest deal of any popular domestic animal.
This is what happens when unsuitable people have a dog, surely this is a prime example of the need for a dog owner suitability test?
Ryan O says it all with his article, how come she is banned form keeping animals but it is okay to keep cats!
Mad judgement, this chav should have been jailed with hard labour, then lets see how ‘knackered’ she would get!