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Video shows the moment a callous pet owner 'systematically beat' her whimpering Shih Tzu–cross with a slipper after it soiled its bed.
Kay Holloway, 65, repeatedly hit the dog with 'considerable force' as it lay cowering on the kitchen floor at her home in Wimborne, Dorset.
The abuse, which took place in July last year, was filmed on cameras within the property and shared with the RSPCA by a neighbour who had access to the recordings.
In distressing video Holloway is seen marching into the kitchen in a pair of black shorts before she bends over the animal, dealing it a number of hard kicks.
She then furiously picks up a slipper and uses it to whack the dog around 20 times as it whimpers and cries – calling it a 'b*****d'.
A vet who viewed the footage told Poole Magistrates' Court the 'systematic beating' was clearly intended to inflict pain.
Holloway was prosecuted by the RPSCA for an animal welfare offence which she pleaded guilty to.
She has now been banned from keeping dogs for five years and the animal, called Shuini, has been rehomed by the charity.
The court heard Holloway was also pet–sitting a friend's dog, a crossbreed named Loki, when the incident took place in July.
In the footage, Holloway makes verbal threats of violence to the two dogs and voices stress and frustration that Loki is not house–trained – urinating on furniture and in the hallway.
She was recorded grabbing both dogs by their collar and slamming them against doors, snapping when Shuini soiled her bed.
The vet who studied the footage said: 'There are multiple examples within this footage of Holloway causing physical harm to these dogs.
'Physical harm is brought about through rough handling, by either yanking the dogs by their collar, slamming them against doors or, in the case of the smaller dog, lifting the dog by his collar.
'There are multiple examples of this type of rough handling within these videos.
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