Cruelty pair flouted ban
Evening Chronicle, by Rob Kennedy
UNITED KINGDOM — A COUPLE banned from keeping animals were found hoarding hamsters, gerbils and rabbits in a wardrobe.
Paul Gibson and Nadine Woodward were disqualified from having pets after they were convicted of cruelty to their cat.
When the RSPCA went round to a house in Byker, Newcastle, to investigate a separate complaint, they found the pair were living at the address.
Gibson and Woodward denied having any pets, but Insp Helen Bestwick, from the animal charity, could smell sawdust and asked to be shown round.
She asked them to open a wardrobe and found two cages with a hamster and a gerbil in, while another hamster was in a different wardrobe, a large rabbit was hidden in a box behind the wardrobe, and more rabbits were found hidden behind their settee. Now the couple, whose bans were due to expire in October, have been disqualified from keeping pets for a further two years…” More
Public domain photo
2 years ago