Three defendants from Tamworth have today been jailed for 25 weeks and given a life ban on keeping all animals following the exhumation of two newborn puppies that had been buried alive in their garden.
The RSPCA and police along with an independent vet visited the home of married couple James and Lorraine Perks in Tamworth, Staffordshire, on 25 August 2011 but were not prepared for the horrors they faced.
Nine dogs and 15 puppies were removed from the disgusting conditions, with most being confined in wooden rabbit hutches, lying in their own faeces and urine.
Shockingly one hutch housed four adult terrier dogs, another a Staffordshire bull terrier and her four pups with a further two hutches both containing one adult dog each…