AUSTRALIA -- A woman whose starving, maggot-infested pet dog was brought ”virtually dead” into an animal centre told investigators that the dog was anorexic.
Michelago woman Natasha Ann Ceric, 28, told animal inspectors she had not noticed anything wrong with her pet dog, which had ”haemorrhagic diarrhoea” and skin infections, until a day or two before it died.
Her 14-year-old kelpie Daizy, who had both rear legs amputated after a car accident, died within two minutes of being admitted to the animal emergency centre in August 2009.
A vet found that the dog suffered poor health, had not eaten for up to a week before it died and had been involved in a dog fight.
In the ACT Magistrates Court yesterday Ceric was banned from keeping pets for the next two years and placed on an 18-month good-behaviour order.
She told animal inspectors that Daizy was extremely skinny because she was anorexic but had been in good condition until a few days before her death, playing ball and eating milk, eggs and dog treats.
(Global Chronicle - June 29, 2011)
