Donegal woman becomes first person to be prosecuted under Animal Health &Welfare Act

OldNotWIse

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/donegal-woman-becomes-first-to-be-prosecuted-under-animal-health-and-welfare-act-672626.html


Great news Hopefully this new legislation will really help to make a difference to animals in Ireland. With any luck, we are moving away from a situation where there was little or no punishment for such acts.


Also lovely to hear that the little dog has recovered and has been re-homed.

Aglomerado

OldNotWIse wrote: »

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/donegal-woman-becomes-first-to-be-prosecuted-under-animal-health-and-welfare-act-672626.html


Great news Hopefully this new legislation will really help to make a difference to animals in Ireland. With any luck, we are moving away from a situation where there was little or no punishment for such acts.


Also lovely to hear that the little dog has recovered and has been re-homed.

+1. I can't understand how someone can just abandon an animal like that. :mad: Gorgeous little dog too.

aonb

Have you all heard about the Carlow puppy farm that was raided earlier this week... Another yesterday in Longford... Our shelter took 23 of the dogs, from the most horrific conditions imaginable. Thankfully there are some good souls out there, and all are fostered now. Unthinkable that these poor dogs have been reared in cages in filth without ANY human contact in any shape or form for their entire lives, kept by unspeakable humans in incredible condition, with their poor puppies left to survive or not. Dead dogs all over the property, malformed and damaged puppies, bitches barely alive. Unspeakable ... Will puppy farms be stamped out? Will these people be prosecuted? Will uneducated people continue to buy puppies from these people, further lining their pockets? Someone told me that puppy farming can be more lucrative than drug dealing....

DBB

aonb wrote: »

Will puppy farms be stamped out? Will these people be prosecuted?

How can they be stamped out aonb, when in 2010 our legislators legalised them
The more bitches you keep, the pro rata amount you pay to license your puppy breeding premises falls. If it's profit you're after, the new legislation actually encourages puppy farmers to keep maximal number of bitches.
There is nothing in the legislation that protects puppies from not being socialised. They have to be kept clean with food and water, but there is nothing there that says the pups must be handled, socialised, or habituated to anything that a pet puppy needs to be socialised and habituated to.
In other words, legal puppy farms are perfectly permitted to produce basket cases of dogs. As long as they pay their license, they're clean, and the books are balanced, they're legal.
Not at all what was envisaged by the animal welfare organisations that campaigned for adequate legislation in the first place. Good old Irish politics. :mad:

Frigga_92

There's been a few shocking animal abuse stories over the past week or so.
Good to see the new Act being used and someone receiving a deserved punishment. Lets just hope that this continues and animal abusers will continue to be held accountable. One thing I would love to see is, anyone convicted of animal cruelty is banned from ever owning an animal again.
This woman didn't even appear in court, that should surely be insisted upon in these cases?

Also, as a more minor matter compared to the neglect of the dog, did anyone else notice that it says that the property was rented? Imagine being the landlord to that woman? What an absolute nightmare.

Antarctica

I set a reminder on my phone that this woman is due to be sentenced on 16th July, this still going ahead I hope?