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A 32-year-old man has been charged with animal cruelty, after allegedly leaving his dog shut inside a hot car in East Victoria Park in December last year.
RSPCA WA has shared heartbreaking images of emaciated dogs currently in care, as it grapples with a record number of cruelty reports about starving pets.
A therapy ex-police horse allowing people of all abilities to ride, a rescue dog changing lives at Banksia Hill Detention centre and a Northam police officer who braved raging flood waters to rescue a trapped dog were among those recognised at RSPCA WA’s Animal Welfare Awards today.
A Herne Hill man has been fined $4000 for setting steel jawed traps on his property, capturing a rabbit and a fox. He has also been ordered to hand the traps over to RSPCA WA.
A 25-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man from Bindoon, who left their dog at home without adequate water for almost a month, have been charged with animal cruelty.
A 25-year-old Bunbury man has received a one-year ban from owning a pet, and been ordered to undertake counselling, after leaving his dog to suffer serious hunting wounds untreated.
A 31-year-old woman has been banned from owning pets for three years, after one dog was found dead, and another starving, in the backyard of her Bunbury home last year.
A 60-year-old man has been given what amounts to a lifetime ban from breeding animals after RSPCA WA inspectors seized 39 labradoodles from his Bridgetown home in January.
In Australia, most pigs are housed in intensive indoor systems. In these intensive systems, pigs may be confined and raised in barren environments, which leads to a higher risk of pigs experiencing poor welfare outcomes.
