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RSPCA WA is reminding pet owners that, while tasty for us, Easter treats like chocolate and hot cross buns can be toxic to our furry friends.
A 56-year-old Cloverdale man has been sentenced to a 12-month community-based order and permanently prohibited from owning animals for kicking, dragging and punching his Staffordshire terrier during three separate incidents in Kewdale and Belmont.
RSPCA WA is hoping the luck of the Irish will rub off on more than 55 animals looking for homes during a special St Paw-trick’s Day adoption drive this weekend.
A 22-year-old Swan View man has been fined $4000 and banned from being in charge of an animal for two years after pleading guilty to beating his one-year-old Bull Arab Mastiff cross, Archie.
A 62-year-old Yokine man who hit his Chihuahua puppy in the head with a paving mallet, fracturing the dog’s skull, has received a suspended prison sentence, and been banned from ever owning an animal again.
A 47-year-old Gosnells woman has been fined $2000 and prohibited from being in charge of an animal after leaving her five-month-old puppy alone in her backyard for long periods of time, without adequate food and water.
A 71-year-old Bullsbrook woman has been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly leaving a black German Shepherd tethered under a homemade tin shelter on a property in Hines Hill.
RSPCA WA is calling for information after a greyhound was found wrapped in four blood-soaked blankets and buried in a shallow grave with wire around his neck near Bampton Road, Orelia.
A 23-year-old woman from Willagee, who failed to seek vet treatment for her puppy’s broken leg, has been fined $2,200 and banned from being in charge of an animal for two years.
