Florence Williams kept a dog for up to two years despite having been in court twice in the past over
A pensioner banned from keeping animals who was found to be keeping a dog has been put on an electronic tag.
Florence Williams kept the dog for up to two years. She had been banned from keeping horses and dogs for 10 years in 2010 after a Jack Russell she had was found with a massive untreated tumour between its legs.
She breached the order in 2011, when she was given a lifetime ban. Then, in 2012, she was given a prison sentence after ten dogs, cats and budgies were found locked in filthy conditions in a caravan she lived in in Llandegla .
Mold crown court heard today that Williams, 75 and now of Stanley Road in St Asaph , had been looking after the current dog properly, but the order still stood and she should not have had it at her home.
When she was told she would have to wear the tag, she said: “That is not very nice. It will rub my legs. I have bad legs as it is. I am not going to have it on.”
But eventually she agreed to have the tag.
Solicitor Glenn Murphy, prosecuting for the RSPCA, said that information was received that she had a dog.
An inspector attended at her home and found the dog there.
The dog was still in the possession of the RSPCA, she had refused to sign it over, and it was intended once the court granted a deprivation order that it would be rehomed.
Defending solicitor Justine McVitie said that it was conceded that the fact that she breached the order previously was an aggravating feature.
But there was absolutely no complaint about the way the dog was being looked after.
Miss McVitie handed in two references and said the fact that the dog had been taken off her “was punishment enough.”
She had been asked to care for the dog by a sick friend who had since died.
Williams, who lived on her own, had planned to return to court to ask for the disqualification to be lifted but that was unlikely to happen now she had breached it again.
Probation officer Pamela Roberts said that the dog had been a companion for Williams, who had said that she had nothing else in her life.
The removal of the dog had a negative impact upon her.
It was believed that she had a limited understanding of the effect of the order that she was not allowed to keep a dog.
Williams was co-operating well with the probation service and she had a good support network in the local community, the probation officer said.
She was ordered to pay £300 costs and a £85 surcharge and must be tagged from 7pm to 7am for the next 16 weeks.
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