Kennels boss banned after 3 dogs suffered

ONE PET WAS IN SUCH A BAD STATE THAT VETS HAD TO PUT IT DOWN

- NICK HORNER News Reporter

A WOMAN who ran a private boarding kennels in Birmingham has been given a suspended jail sentence after admitting a series of animal welfare offences against three dogs, with one of them needing to be put down.

Natalie Bailey, of Copthorne Road in Great Barr, has also been banned from keeping animals for ten years.

She was investigated after the RSPCA was alerted by a staff member at a vets when a bulldog was brought to them in a shocking state.

There were concerns the dog had been neglected at private kennels in Cooksey Lane, Kingstanding, between November 20023 and January 2024.

The staff member said English bull-dog Rochea was brought in by a woman who was "very panicked", who had "blood over her arms".

The worker said: "She said she had picked her dog up from the boarding kennels and that she thought she was dying.