"This is about a Guinea Pig/Rabbit Breeder in Nottingham. This man is seriously neglecting the animals. The animals are living in terrible conditions and are in very poor health. He’s using them as breeding machines just to make money. He visits the Fur and Feather auction on a regular basis selling and buying stock. Most look to be pregnant, they have fungal infections, scabs to their ears and noses, very thin, sore feet, broken nails, long nails, mites/parasites, dirty and very smelly. Below is what happened to some of them:
2 boys both look like they’d been attacked by something like a cheese grater, huge holes in their backs( open wounds) and sitting depressed and fluffed up the holes had infection oozing out of them and most of the hair had gone from their backs. They also had fungal on their faces and looked in agony!
One guinea pig had 6 dead babies Saturday morning and was still laying there with blood oozing on Sunday afternoon, unable to sit or stand. She had big bite wounds underneath and hair missing on her legs and belly.
Photographs were taken but the RSPCA have never even asked to see them.
Also another girl had her hair peeling off with a layer of skin under her belly, there were dead babies laying on the floor behind her.
There was a bonfire in the middle of the garden with burning bodies of guinea pigs,rabbits,baby g-pigs and baby rabbits as well as chickens, the chickens that were alive were dragging the bodies out from the fire and trying to eat them.. In the rabbit shed the rabbits were in appalling conditions, mice were crawling out of the cages and rats were running about on the rafters.. There were dead baby rabbits in with their mums.
The breeder said he doesn’t believe in vets as they cost a fortune so he knocks them on the head and throws them onto the bonfire. He is also killing the male rabbits as he’s not sold any since November and having them for dinner, he says it’s not worth taking them to the auction and only getting £1 for them. So he kills them, the pet shops aren’t buying from him lately neither.
On Saturday there was a body of a dead guinea pig on the bonfire waiting to be burnt, he said she died the day before and the 3 day old baby that was running around in the shed was hers.
The whole place is sludgy, the Guinea pigs are kept on a shed floor on Straw, fed Rabbit food that was wet through, the water was in a old chicken feeder and was thick and sludgy. He had babies in the sheds breeding with one another. A 4 day old baby running around on its own screaming for its mum. The Rabbits are in small disgusting old tatty hutches lying in there own faeces and all wet.
MR HUBBARD The Willows doddington lane, off main street dry doddington newark NG23 5JB
Any further or more concrete details?
04.04.2010 11:56
anon
Link to photos
04.04.2010 12:02
Photos
RSPCA cruelty line
04.04.2010 12:15
They prosecute animal owners/breeders for offences much less serious than this, so I would expect them to take this seriously.
Caroline
Take action
04.04.2010 13:03
or
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Citizen%27s-Arrest
^^^^^^^
If you an prove he is clearly breaking animal cruelty laws, perform a peaceful citizens arrest and call the police. Even if it doesn't work there would such a kerfuffle that the police would take notice.
AA
I've visited this sty
04.04.2010 15:35
bunnies
voice of the rspca...
04.04.2010 17:54
"The Society is aware that images have been circulated in relation to this incident but we are unable to confirm their date or exact location.
Advice has been given by our Inspectors to improve the conditions for the guinea pigs and rabbits and although they are still not perfect, the Society is unable to do more at this stage."
Notes CONDITIONS ... ARE STILL NOT PERFECT and
THE SOCIETY IS UNABLE TO DO MORE AT THIS STAGE!
"As mentioned in the above statement, any concerns should be made directly to the National Cruelty line on 0300 1234 999 where the Regions Inspectorate receive their work load."
all quotes from the local RSPCA website
anon
Eating rabbits?
04.04.2010 18:40
Wondering
Totally shocking
05.04.2010 11:05
The poor souls! The RSPCA ought to get to this evil place pronto! All this cruelty to innocent animals is absolutely terrible, unfair, ghastly, dastardly, etc.
Francis H. Giles
2006 Animal Welfare Act details
06.04.2010 10:29
See page six and eleven for details on offences that seem like they've been committed in this case.
Concerned
Animal welfare act
06.04.2010 11:06
(1) A person commits an offence if—
(a) an act of his, or a failure of his to act, causes an animal to suffer,
(b) he knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the act, or failure to
act, would have that effect or be likely to do so,
(d) the suffering is unnecessary.
9 Duty of person responsible for animal to ensure welfare
(1) A person commits an offence if he does not take such steps as are reasonable in
all the circumstances to ensure that the needs of an animal for which he is
responsible are met to the extent required by good practice.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, an animal’s needs shall be taken to include—
(a) its need for a suitable environment,
(b) its need for a suitable diet,
(c) its need to be able to exhibit normal behaviour patterns,
(d) any need it has to be housed with, or apart from, other animals, and
(e) its need to be protected from pain, suffering, injury and disease.
From having visited, I could clearly see that he is in breach of every single one of the above.
bunnies
Sincere thanks
06.04.2010 11:56
I hope this man's evil cruelty is stopped. I hope someone keeps us updated re this cruelty. My most sincere thanks!
Francis Giles
RSPCA
06.04.2010 12:46
bunnies
Go in and GET THE ANIMALS OUT!
08.04.2010 00:40
If the fact that the RSPCA would help / didn't help was your beef then you should have rescued the animals and THEN displayed photos after you rescued them. By posting this up you have alerted them that "The ALF are coming" and hindered a rescue. If you were able to get in to take photos you can get in and get those poor creatures out of there.
Just do it for fucks sake.
anon
As you are so well aqcuainted with this scumbag's movements...
08.04.2010 00:46
Get them out of there and do it soon.
anon
'What are you waiting for?'
12.04.2010 15:13
If you know that you can't do something yourself shouldn't you ask for help rather than just doing nothing? Granted they may not have gone about it in the best possible way but they've bought this to peoples attention and at least thats a step in the right direction surely.
So why don't you 'stop effing around on your computer' and go organise a rescue if its that easy? 'What are you waiting for?'
Anon