Absolutely appalling
A man has avoided jail after after "absolutely horrific" mobile phone footage caught him illegally fighting two dogs with a badger.
The dog, who was wearing the same type of collar as that seen in the mobile phone footage, had a significant scar which ran lengthwise along almost the entire length of the top of his head. On the left hand side of the lower jaw and surrounding area there were 22 individual scarred puncture wounds and on the right hand side there were nine.
“It was filmed in the dark but two dogs can be seen attacking a badger as initially, when the recording begins, a bright light can be seen being shone on the animals,” she said. Her colleague, inspector Chris Haywood from the RSPCA’s special operations unit which investigates wildlife crime, told the court: “In my opinion, and based on previous experience, these wounds were caused by close combative contact with a badger. In 34 years of dealing with dogs I have never seen these types of injuries on any other breeds other than lurchers, bull lurchers and terriers and known them to be caused by any other means than by a badger.
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