CRUELTY TO DOGS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22827, 11 March 1936, Page 14

CRUELTY TO DOGS

For allowing unnecessary suffering to be caused to 11 dogs by food starvation and lack of proper care, George F. Barnes, of Ings Cottage, Guiseley, Yorkshire, was fined £2O at Harrogate last month. Ho was disqualified from holding a dog licence for five years. Robert Ingle, kcnnelman, of Starbeck, Harrogate, was fined £1 for causing the suffering. The dogs, it was stated, were a pack of beagles owned by Barnes and called the “Ribblesdale Foot Harriers.” f Mr, Herbert Atkinson, prosecuting, 1 ; said the case exposed a terrible state of callous cruelty. When police officers ' visited stables at Starbeck, Ingle said ' that he went to Guiseley to tell Barnes about the dogs. Barnes said, “Get Rifleman (one of the dogs) out of the way before anyone comes.” Ingle told him that another dog was i in a worse condition than Rifleman and ought to be “ put down.” Ingle returned to Starbeck to destroy the two dogs. He had no gun or poison, but by a thick twine he pulled them up to a beam and ; let them hang. ' For the defence, Mr T. J. Lewis said that since the death of file three dogs ; ■ Barnes had taken extraordinary pains to . see that those surviving had every passible attention. Barnes had made tlio mistake of thinking that the red mange which tile dogs had contracted could.b ■■ cured by not giving them meat ;