cruelty to animals

A lot of our time and energy is put into answering calls on reported Cruelty Cases.

We allow the person reporting to remain anonymous although we do like to have a phone number in case we have trouble finding the location of the animals in question.

We answer reports of cruelty to Dogs, Cats, Horses or Ponies and even Farm Animals.

It is a very hard and often times sad job, but helping the animals in desperate situations can be very rewarding.

We have a good few Cruelty cases on our Cruelty pages but we will WARN you

that some of the pics can be quite GRAPHIC………

Some have happy ending and others have not!

Not all the of the following cases were brought to court,

but all the animals were Rehabilitated and Rehomed or their living conditions were improved with advice to the owner and some sadly were released from pain and suffering by being PTS.

The Five Freedoms Concept:

Which are the Five Basic Freedoms that ALL Animals are Entitled To!

1. Freedom from Thirst, Hunger and Malnutrition.

2. Freedom from Discomfort.

3. Freedom from Pain, Injury and Disease.

4. Freedom to Express Normal Pattern of Behaviour.

5. Freedom from Fear and Distress.

Which sadly the Animals on the following pages were not allowed!

Please click on any of the links and they will bring you directly to the pages.

Dog/Cat Cruelty Horse Cruelty Latest Case's Wild Life Court Cases

Horror of Snares Missey Madam (Shetland Foal)

Champ "Our amazing HERO who went to live in America

This poor Lurcher was brought to us by a very kind person that found her in a terrible state, she brought her to a vet on Sunday evening as she was very worried about her and she came to the rescue the day after 26/04/2009

She is a lovely little Lurcher of about a year old and is totally terrified of everybody and everything, she has open wounds on her body and has been attacked by dogs in the past which we can tell from all the old scaring she has, she also has mange and was very dehydrated and emaciated and is now on a special diet, but she is very young and she should blossom into a real beauty and we have decided to call her TWIGGY as we know she is going to be very beautiful in time to come.

It is hard to imagine why people can be so cruel.

I got a call about this poor German Shepherd 27/05/2009 from a lady near Cashel, she had found this dog in her shed when she got home from work and I collected him at 7pm.

He is a young dog and is very emaciated and has dreadful mange, very weak, dehydrated and hardly able to walk.

Just look at his poor face and try to imagine how sore and itchy he must be.

The pain and suffering of this animal could have been prevented if his owner had obtained a simple mange treatment from a vet.

There is no need what-so-ever for this kind of neglect/cruelty.

No excuse for his suffering…..

We are so delighted with TWIGGY'S progress, see the difference of her in only a month, she has put on lots of weight and she done so very quickly and has been Spayed by Marta and she has her 1st Vax and is chipped as well and see how her awful wounds have healed up and she is now a very happy lass and I am delighted with her.

Look how proud she stands now and so full of life!

She has been homed in the UK.

I got a call from a member of the public 22/05/2009 about this dog who she thought had been hit by a car, so I headed off to find this poor creature stuck half way down into a drain, so I got her out with the help of a couple of people.

We thought at first that she had been burned but then we noticed that she had identical marks to both sides of her body, the poor dog was in an awful state and so sore and in great pain.

An owner was located and eventually admitted that the dogs lead had been left on the hitch of a car while the owner was doing something but another person got into the car and drove down the avenue and up the road for about a mile not knowing that the dog was being tossed around the road behind the car until the collar eventually gave way and snapped and the dog got flung into a ditch.

If you look closely at the above pics you will dark skin around her wounds which is bad bruising from her body hitting the road being flung about behind the car, the black on the wounds is tar from the road which we thought were burn marks, on her front leg you can see bone exposed and a vein, none of us can even try to imagine what pain she was in before she got medical treatment,

She gave all weekend at the vets and then came out to us here in the rescue where she spent another few days until a decision had to be made to PTS her as she had bad damage done to her back legs and she was very sore, nervous and aggressive and had to be sedated every time the bandages were changed and would have had to have another operation later on her back legs and we felt she had done enough suffering.

I got a call about this poor abandoned Lurcher that was dropped off near a lady;s house who caught her and rang me, so I headed off to collect her last night around 9pm on 16/09/ 2009.

She is totally emaciated, dehydrated, covered in mange with only about 30% of hair on her body but she has the sweetest little face that would melt anybodys heart.

She will have a nice bath today and we will begin her treatment and she will be a beauty in no time.

But imaging how cold, hungry and bewildered this dog is and she has a lovely kind gentle personality.

At this stage of my life in Animal Welfare I have given up trying to comprehend why people treat animals in this way.

Update on Lilly in her new home since 07/11/2009

She is very happy roaching and lazing about on the sofa as all Lurchers and Greyhounds love to do.

Her new owner sent us these pics 3 days after adopting her and says it was like having a new baby in the house with all the friends and neighbours and family calling to meet her, what a lucky dog she is to have been homed with such a loving family and she also lives with another dog and 2 cats..

Hard to believe that this is the same dog as above but this is Lucas in his new home in the Uk and Pam took these pics shortly after he arrived and he now lives with 2 other German Sheps and Pam was only meant to foster him until a nice home came up for him but she fell madly in love with him and she adopted him herself and she left him with the name Lucas and the reason I called him that to begin with was as he was so dehydrated when he came in I was giving him lukazade.

What a fantastic out come for this dog that came in to us in such dreadful condition but he will never look back again because he now so loved and adored by Pam.

How can people be so cruel to let a young dog get into this condition?

This poor dog came into us after a member of the public found her wandering and when we looked at her we found a couple of stitches and what looked to be a hernia, we were not sure if the stitches were due to being Spayed or were due to a section so we brought her to our vet who had to open her anyway to sort out the hernia and to her horror she found out that the poor dog had been Spayed and she said that no Vet would spay a dog in this way.

She had no inner stitches and all her muscle and outer skin were sewn together which must have been very painful and sore for poor Mai, Marta had to remove a lot of damaged tissue and some of the muscle and she is mow on kennel rest for a week and has to be kept quiet.

She is up for homing and you can see her on our Homing Page

Nikki got a call about this poor male cat, a man had found him in all the bad weather at the beginning of Jan 2010 in his garden frozen and stuck to the grass with frost.

He was malnourished and his bottom was prolapsed as you can see from the pics and the bottom front of his jaw had been injured and the vet thinks that it may be due to a rat bite, you can see the exposed teeth and partial bone and it had become septic, he also had frost bite to both ears and his back legs.

He is a very friendly, loving and trusting cat who loves attention..

He is now on the road to recovery and will be up for homing shortly.

This poor dog was found yesterday by kind people who contacted Nikki about her today and she then came into our care 20th Feb 2010.

She is a Shih Tzu who is no more than 3 years old but as you can see from the pics that she had a very uncaring owner who treated her very badly and I would think that she had never known love in her short life or the respect that should be shown to every living creature.

She had to be sedated at the Vets to have all her coat shaved off as it stank to high heaven and we can only try to imagine how awful she must have felt, how unloved she must have been, she had no nice bed to lie in. the cold and misery she must have endured. You can see she is nearly blind in one of her eyes and her good eye was totally covered in dirt and hair so this means that she has also been locked up in a dark shed for a long time, I cant wait to see her reaction tomorrow when I let her out into daylight and she can see again and move around in comfort.

Shame on you who owned and abused this little dog, how dare you do this to any living creature and also shame on anybody that knew of her or anybody that chooses to ignore any animal living in horrid conditions.

We have named her Shelly.

I would like to thank her previous owners for dumping her and to say that it is the only good thing you done for her

and say SHAME ON YOU for letting such a sweet little dog get into such a horrific state!!!

Shelly is now looking for her forever home and you can see a nice updated pic of her looking much happier in Homes Needed