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🚨 NEGLECTED HER ELDERLY DOG WHO ENDED UP BEING EUTHANISED ⚠️ JADE HARWOOD 🌍 BIRMINGHAM A Birmingham woman who neglected her dog by leaving him alone without food or water in her filthy faeces and urine stinking home has avoided jail. Jade Harwood's eleven-year-old husky, Oleg, was left to become severely underweight in her squalid home filled with litter and debris. The animal welfare charity had been called out to her home repeatedly after receiving reports that Oleg was living in unsanitary conditions. The pooch was seized by police and later taken to RSPCA Birmingham Animal Hospital for treatment. The vet who examined Oleg said: "He had a body condition score of one out nine, meaning he was emaciated with muscle loss and no discernible fat. "A reasonable owner would provide an adequate diet, ensure an adequate supply of water, and present their animal for veterinary assessment if they failed to gain or maintain a healthy weight. "This dog was extremely underweight with obvious muscle loss. "The owner should have also noticed the marked flea dirt and numerous live fleas present on Oleg’s body and should have provided adequate preventative treatment or presented him for veterinary treatment, given the level of flea infestation present. “It's likely that Oleg also showed signs consistent with his severe anaemia such as lethargy, weakness and a possible reluctance to eat, which may have contributed further to his poor body condition and should have prompted the owner to seek veterinary advice." Oleg saw his weight increase by 68 per cent to 21.9kg in just three months. However, he was later euthanised. Harwood was sentenced at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on April 29 to 12 weeks custody, suspended for two years, for neglecting Oleg. She blamed 'caring responsibilities' in mitigation for why her situation and Oleg's health had spiralled. Harwood, who has been banned from keeping animals for a decade, said she was ashamed of what had happened. She was ordered to pay £350 costs and a £154 victim surcharge. RSPCA Inspector Ben Jones said: "Animals are completely reliant on their owners to ensure their needs, including the need for a suitable diet, are met. "Owning an animal is a privilege and ensuring appropriate care is a key part of the responsibility we have towards them." Source UK Database.

@domdyer70 Heartbreakingly evil. What is happening to the good people of Isreal? They seem to be letting moral standards slip, and letting anger consume them? 💔💔💔

'He Attacked a Tied-up Dog': Israeli Settler Filmed Abusing Palestinian-owned Dog in West Bank The owner said Lucy the dog, which suffered severe injuries and was later taken for treatment, was tied up and did not attack the settler. The owner was not able to intervene because soldiers had instructed residents to document settler attacks from their homes

@Protect_Wldlife 💔🤬 The UK justice system seems broken when it comes to handing out appropriate sentences to animal abusers. THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE! 🤬🤬🤬 @CPSUK @MoJGovUK @RSPCA_official @C4Dispatches @Channel4News @BBCNews

A slap on the wrist YET AGAIN for an animal abuser!! 😡 An RSPCA investigation was launched after footage was passed to them by the housing manager of a man carrying out a prolonged attack on a bull breed dog. This took place in the hallway of a block of flats at Hyde Park Terrace in Sheffield on October 4, 2023. Mason Sestanovich was caught on CCTV kicking and punching his dog The RSPCA sent out an officer to visit the flat they saw the man enter, and found Mason Sestanovich was keeping a dog called Chicago there, in unsuitable conditions. Of Stanwell Walk, Wincobank, Sestanovich pleaded guilty to inflicting blunt force trauma, physical violence and intimidatory behaviour on the dog under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. He admitted the charges and narrowly avoided being jailed after being handed a 16 week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court on May 1st. He was also ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and ten rehabilitation activity requirement days, pay £400 court costs and a victim surcharge of £154.

Britain has lost around half its hedgerows since the Second World War. The wildlife that depended on them has followed a similar trajectory. 🌿 The old field boundary — a strip of blackthorn, hawthorn, dog rose, and elder two to five metres wide between cultivated ground — was not wasted agricultural space. It was a functioning ecological system that maintained pollinators, pest predators, and farmland birds across centuries of working land. Each hedgerow is a nesting corridor for grey partridge and skylark, a foraging habitat for brown hares and hedgehogs, a site for solitary bee colonies, and a windbreak for the crops alongside it. The field cultivated to its very edge gives the maximum return this season. It removes the populations of beneficial insects, farmland birds, and small mammals on which stable long-term production depended. The field with a hedgerow yields a few percent less per cultivated hectare — but remains productive across decades without compensatory chemical inputs. The documented declines in grey partridge, lapwing, and skylark across the British agricultural landscape since the 1970s are directly linked to field consolidation and hedgerow removal. Practical equivalents for the garden or smallholding: - A strip of wildflower meadow at least one metre wide at the plot boundary - A clump of nettles in a shaded corner as a habitat base for red admiral, small tortoiseshell, and peacock butterflies - A native mixed hedge of blackthorn and hawthorn in place of post-and-wire fencing - A section of uncut grass between rows of fruit trees #HedgerowHabitat #FarmlandWildlife #NativeHedge #GardenWildlife

BEAR HAS BEEN RESCUED & NOW AT THE VETS 🙏🏻 Sadly he’s not okay - he’s very distrustful of humans, limping & completely exhausted from dehydration & heat. Waiting for his X-rays now & will be posting more updates as soon as we have them. Please keep Bear in prayers meanwhile ❤️‍🩹

@HomeStrays Hopefully he will decompress soon and allow the vets to help get him on the mend quickly 💔💔❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

This is why we shouldn't be strimming. Hedgehogs lay up during the day in long grass. They're hidden, so you can't see them. They don't move when they hear you approach. They don't cry out in pain when you cut them. They don't run out dragging their amputated limbs. They stay in a ball until you've gone. So you'll never know the devastation you've caused. Just bin the strimmer - I promise you won't regret it.🥰 Each of the 3 photos below contain a hedgehog nest, two of them with babies in too.

@Upyourkilt2011 He’s been rescued & now at the vets. He’s not doing so good, very agitated & stressed. Apparently has a broken limb, waiting for X-rays now 😞

😡Denuncian maltrato de este perrito en calle Tlahuicas, colonia Las Águilas, de alcaldía Alvaro Obregón.

@otolz_ 💔❤️‍🩹💔❤️‍🩹

Una elefanta de circo retirada fue vista llorando y tratando de consolar a su compañera de más de 25 años tras su colapso y fall3cimiento. Jenny y Magda actuaron juntas en Rusia durante más de 25 años. Tras el fallecimiento de Jenny esta semana, Magda impidió que los veterinarios se acercaran durante varias horas, mientras abrazaba a la elefanta. "En los primeros minutos después de la tragedia, empujó suavemente a su amiga e intentó levantarla, y luego comenzó a abrazarla", informó el medio Baza. "Magda se despidió de Jenny durante varias horas y no permitió que los veterinarios se acercaran". Qué triste.

@Heccles94 And how many of those 🤡 actually have seen the inside of a Christian Church in the last 10years. Very few I’d guess.

Petrifying displays of white supremacy. Since when did the UK get infected with christo-fascism? This isn’t the USA…

TAWF’s Second Chance for Working Donkeys ❤️ We could not save the little baby donkey… but his heartbreaking death became the reason three suffering donkeys finally got a second chance. That tiny baby was tied beside a donkey cart for “training.” He was beaten until his fragile body collapsed. Even after falling unconscious, he was dragged, whipped, and forced to stand again… until his little body gave up forever. His cries will stay with me forever. We rescued Romeo, the adult donkey beside him, and later discovered two more donkeys owned by the same man — wounded, starving, exhausted, and suffering the same cruelty. Through TAWF’s Second Chance for Working Donkeys, and with the help of one kind-hearted supporter, we exchanged the donkey cart for a motor cart and legally rescued all remaining donkeys. Proper agreements were signed through lawyers and local police to ensure donkeys can never again be used by that owner. Now these donkeys are safe at our sanctuary, where they will finally live the peaceful life they always deserved. But this is only the beginning. There are countless more working donkeys suffering every day, and we desperately need funds to buy more motor carts so we can exchange them and rescue more donkeys from cruelty. Every exchange means: ✔ Another donkey freed from hard labour ✔ Another life safe at our sanctuary ✔ More food, treatment, shelter, and lifelong care needed for rescued donkeys Every motor cart means more donkeys freed from a lifetime of pain. Every rescue means another innocent soul saved from collapse, suffering, and death. Please help us continue TAWF’s Second Chance for Working Donkeys. I cannot do this alone. 💳 PayPal: paypal.me/TAWFUK ❤️ Construction GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/tawf-sanctua… 🔗 Linktree: linktr.ee/tahiraanimalwe…

@tawf_uk Utterly heartbreaking. The man needs prosecuted !! The epitome of sheer Evil. 💔🤬💔 It’s Sickening💔💔 @GovtofPakistan what are you doing ? ⚠️Needs to stop:- @PakEmbassyUK @PakEmbassyBern @Pakembassy @PakinUSA @PAKinCanada @PakPMO

@onenews31 🤬🤬🤬

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⚠️ Please, don't strim - leave those edges for our precious insects. If you do strim, PLEASE check the area first 💔💔💔👇👇

@HedgehogCabin Heartbreaking. 💔 I struggle to understand how people don’t see these wee animals before strimming. 💔💔

Another gentle little soul was taken from us this morning. The person who wielded the strimmer probably still has no idea this girl paid with her life for their 'neat' edges. But there is good news. This poor darling, missing her front leg, dragged herself out to where a lovely couple noticed her. She was curled into a neat ball, no sign of her catastrophic injury, but this couple had seen good correct advice; that a hedgehog out in the day in the open is *always* in trouble and needs help, and so rang me for advice. Frustratingly, a organisation that collects donations to fund questionable 'research', ironically called The British Hedgehog Preservation Society, publish 'advice' on their website, despite having no knowledge or experience of hedgehog rescue or care. This poor and fatally misleading 'advice' is that hedgehogs seen out in the day could be mums, so to leave them alone. This is so irresponsible and extremely dangerous. And just not true, as it's an incredibly rare and evident event (please see infogram below). This no doubt well-meaning but fatally wrong advice has caused so much suffering, and hundreds of unnecessary deaths. Sadly it's believed by many members of the public, and is still being propagated today by small hobbyist 'rescues' - individuals who are unacquainted with the scientific and medical facts, and desperately hold on to this profoundly ignorant and lethal fallacy. If this poor girl's finder had been someone who believed this misconception she would have been left to suffer a horrendous agonising death, most likely by being predated alive. But thanks to this lovely couple who did the right thing, this poor darling was immediately given a potent analgesic, and then a gentle death with no pain, and no fear. A hedgehog can't survive and thrive with a missing leg, especially a front weight-bearing leg. Below is her admittance and examination this morning. (It's terrifying for a wild animal to be handled by a human so once I spot the injury I take a photo, so I can take my time studying the image, not the casualty, thus reducing handing time.) So please, don't strim - leave those edges for our precious insects. And please spread this information far and wide, to help save lives. More info: x.com/HedgehogCabin/…

@Perky_43 This 🤡 is a true risk to society 🤬

🚨 ABSOLUTE SCUM OF THE EARTH ⚠️ CONVICTED | Brian Coote, 37, from #westhoughton, #bolton BL5 – killed his elderly father’s rescue dog with a samurai sword after flying into a rage. Coote had been drinking on the night of Christmas Eve and was offered a cup of tea by his 71-year-old father, Alan, after he got up the next morning. Coote threw the cup of tea at his father and gripped him by the arms. He then ran to another room to fetch a decorative Samurai sword. Alan fled over a garden fence to raise the alarm, but when he returned with police officers, he found his rescue dog Max dead behind the garden shed. Coote had slashed the Jack Russell three times with the sword, causing catastrophic injuries. Officers then found Coote covered in blood. He spat at and kicked the arresting police officers and later spat at a custody officer. Coote pleaded guilty to assault causing grievous bodily harm; causing unnecessary suffering to an animal; assaulting an emergency worker; and common assault. In a statement issued following the hearing, Sergeant Sarah Kirkman from Bolton’s Evidence Review Team, said: “The actions that Coote took towards his elderly father and his dog that he had rescued from an abusive home were nothing short of despicable. “He turned what should have been a day of celebration into a nightmare, first by seriously injuring his father and then by causing catastrophic injuries to his loyal and faithful companion, Max, that he could never have survived." “The sentence passed to him reflects how seriously Greater Manchester Police takes domestic abuse and animal cruelty, and assaults against its officers and staff. Sentencing | jailed for 47 months. 10-year restraining order. No mention of a ban on keeping animals. Source UKACF.