Couple starved dogs for at least three months

A COUPLE have been banned from keeping animals for two years after starving their dogs, which have now made a good recovery and will soon be ready to find a forever home.

- By NICOLE GOODWIN

Enzo and Fen were found severely underweight in a home with no food or water available. When an RSPCA inspector and police visited owners Liam Redden and Daisy Dunn, both 24, they claimed there was nothing wrong with their pets and they were being fed.

But a vet said the condition of the dogs - one of whom was about half his ideal body weight - led her to conclude they had been suffering from starvation for at least three months.

Redden and Dunn, of Avon Avenue in North Shields, were sentenced at Newcastle Magistrates' Court on Friday, November 7, following an investigation and prosecution by the RSPCA.

They had both pleaded guilty to two offences contrary to the Animal Welfare Act 2006 at an earlier hearing.