West Midlands dog owner banned from keeping animals after 11 spaniels found in squalor

Shocking pictures show a faeces-filled home where 11 dogs were kept in squalid conditions.

The urine-soaked spaniels were crammed inside stacked cages while one pup was found dead in the corner of a crate. RSPCA inspectors discovered the appalling scene during a raid on Carl Price’s home in Dorsett Road, Wednesbury. The 49-year-old admitted two animal welfare offences at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court.

RSPCA Inspector Vicki Taylor told how she found the desperate dogs when she attended the house on November 15 last year following a police probe.

She said: “At the property there was a strong smell of faeces and urine as I walked through the front door. Inside the front room there was a small dog crate with a spaniel named Millie, with four young pups all covered in urine. There was faeces all over the crate which was wet with urine. There was no bedding and a dead pup in the corner of the crate.

“In the kitchen, which had faeces all over and was extremely dirty, there were two more crates on top of one another, which were also extremely dirty. In the top crate there was another dog, a black and white spaniel named Misty, in the crate with three young pups.

“They were all dirty and wet with faeces with urine. I was informed that she was not the mother to these pups, that all the pups belonged to the spaniel in the front room. In the conservatory area, there was also excrement all over the floor and up the walls.”

Price was banned from keeping animals and sentenced to a 12 month community order with 15 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement (RAR) days. He must also pay a £114 victim surcharge and £186 costs.