A jury on Wednesday found Stuart West guilty on 62 counts, including failure to provide adequate shelter, failure to provide food and water and mistreatment of animals. He was found not guilty on another 63 counts. Jurors deliberated for 6 hours.
West, 68, of Elmwood, Wisconsin, is accused of running a puppy mill. Charges file against West included intentionally providing improper animal shelter space, improper animal shelter ventilation and intentionally failing to provide food for an animal.
In total, there are approximately 125 misdemeanor counts against him.
A total of 48 dogs were removed from his property in April 2016. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says the dogs were living indoors in small, filthy travel crates, with no access to food or water.
Numerous deceased animals were also found on the property.
"It was striking to me, as a professional behaviorist, that the animals were so passive," said Katherine Miller with the ASPCA. "They were afraid, they were trying to get away, they were trembling."
Jurors were shown these crates that STUART WEST
forced his dogs to live in, some jammed three to a crate
"The question is, was he doing something that was criminal under law?" Belzer said. "We've heard expert testimony that that's not appropriate, okay, alright. But he didn't know that. He didn't know that."
KEITH BELZER IS A POS. Who cares if he fed them roadkill... they were stuffed inside cramped pet taxis and left in them 24 hours a day. When they died, he threw their bodies to the side while he continually bred these dogs, churning out puppies to sell. To STUART WEST they were commodities to make him money. He didn't care about their suffering.
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