New analysis of RSPCA WA’s case files has revealed this small town accounted for 33 per cent of regional prosecutions finalised in the past 12 months.
Two men, aged 28 and 27, who are in Australia on working visas, have been charged with animal cruelty, after video emerged of a cat being brutally beaten with a pole.
RSPCA WA has opened its 2021 prosecution files, revealing new details and an alarming pattern of animal neglect.
A 27-year-old man who filmed the malicious and brutal bashing of a cat near Waroona in March has been sentenced to a 10-month community-based order and 40 hours of community work.
A 20-year-old man, whose dog was found deceased and chained to a clothesline with no water or adequate shade in 32-degree heat, has been fined $4500.
A 43 -year-old Armadale woman has been fined $7000 and banned from owning animals for two years after she failed to get her dogs the medical treatment they needed and ignored RSPCA WA’s directions to take them to a vet.
Four people have been convicted of animal cruelty after two separate cases were heard in court.
A man and woman from Collie have been sentenced for animal cruelty, for starving their two dogs.
A man and woman in their 20s have been sentenced for animal cruelty to two dogs described by RSPCA as 'walking skeletons'.