Crufts Winner Who Kept Animals in Squalor Gets Ban Reduced

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A Crufts medal-winning dog breeder who allowed animals to live in squalid conditions in Somerset had her lifetime ban on keeping animals reduced on appeal to a ban lasting 18 years. Rachel Mortimore, 57, admitted two charges of causing unnecessary suffering to animals at a magistrates' court hearing in July, relating to a dog and a cat which were among around 300 animals found in filthy conditions at Foxdown Dog Training Centre in Culmhead last November.

The dog was found with an infected abscess in its mouth that went untreated so long the infection had rotted a hole in the side of its face. The cat had an ulcer on its eye that would have "popped" the eye if left untreated.

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Crufts Winner Who Kept Animals in Squalor Gets Ban Reduced

At Taunton Crown Court, Recorder Michael Parroy QC said the ...

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