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A WOMAN IN Co Tipperary has been convicted on five counts of causing unnecessary suffering to dogs, after an ISPCA inspector discovered five dogs living in “horrendous conditions”, confined to a “filthy pen without access to water, food or adequate shelter”.
The woman, from Thurles, was fined €2,500 and ordered to pay €1,108 in veterinary costs and €1,000 in legal costs at Cashel District Court on 23 March.
ISPCA inspector Alice Lacey visited the defendant’s property on 7 December 2015, after allegations had been made that a number of dogs were in poor condition there.
A pomeranian, three black labrador crosses and a saluki were found on site, all underweight for their breed and size with two of the younger puppies having a heavy worm burden.
All of the dogs were signed over to the care of the ISPCA.
The pomeranian, who rescuers named Hector, was covered in faeces and had an extremely matted coat when found, according to the ISPCA.
His condition was so bad that Lacey was initially unable to distinguish what breed of dog he was. A veterinary examination revealed that Hector had lost all of his teeth except for two.
Inspector Lacey said: “The living conditions these dogs were kept in were horrendous and animal neglect will not be tolerated.
If owners are unable to care for their animals appropriately, our inspectors will provide advice or give instruction. However, in certain circumstances animals will be seized and we will instigate legal proceedings in serious cases.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Lacey said that all of the dogs had been re-homed since their discovery, including Hector who took about a year to recover.
In a statement, the ISPCA added that it believes the right balance of enforcement and education would result in long terms changes in attitudes towards animal welfare in Ireland.
“We would like to see animal welfare taught as part of the national school curriculum,” the group said.
Since March 2014, ISPCA Inspectors have carried out 11,065 investigations and over 2,795 animals have been seized or surrendered.
A total of 92 prosecutions have been initiated, 25 of which have been finalised in court to-date.
Members of the public should report animal welfare concerns to the ISPCA by contacting the National Animal Cruelty Helpline on 1890 515 515 or report online in confidence here.
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Bring it on, my arm is waiting…
@David Dineen: need to start deferring the second dose out in order to get ahead of this. Has worked for both Israel and the UK.
@Derdaly: it works well for AZ but not so much for Pfizer, according to recent data from the UK. Since we’re giving Pfizer to the most vulnerable/exposed it makes sense to maximize their protection by giving two doses at the correct interval.
@Helpless In The Face Of Your Beauty: it’s not a competition between vaccines. It still offers huge benefits from a single dose as we have already seen here. Canadians have tried it with gaps up to 16 weeks without any negative impact. Even doubling the gap to 8 weeks would protect so many more people while supplies ramp up. Irish approach is way too conservative and lacks any sense of urgency.
GO ON PFIZER YA GOOD THING!!
Totally misleading headline. So the news here is that we are getting an extra 100k doses over 3 months. So an extra 7000 doses a week. Hardly life changing in fairness
@Declan John Power: might recover some of the shortfall in recent weeks but not nearly enough. They’ve made a hames of it so far in fairness. Whatever happened to nailing it down to avoid any further mutations?
@Declan John Power: life changing for the50k people who will get them. Don’t be such a negative nelly. It’s better than AZ constantly saying that there are delays
@Declan John Power: thats 7000 less people to catch the virus per week, potentially 140 less cases requiring hospitalisation and maybe 14 less patients in ICU and perhaps 2 less deaths…. certainly IS life changing!!
@Declan John Power: ok so let’s
forget about the overall 2.2 doses of Pfizer, the 600,000 doses of 1 jab j&j vaccines etc coming in the second quarter , enough to to vaccinate nearly 1.6 m people and instead let’s focus on the negative
@Adrian O’Donnell: what would you have done differently if you were Taoiseach/Minister/HSE?
@Siomoin O Rian: Negative Nelly…love that! 7000 more people a week than we thought.
@Declan John Power: Fair point on the actual number but unfortunate use of the life-changing phrase.
At least it’s an increase as opposed to the continuous under supply from the AZ shower.
Good news!
@Declan John Power: the small print often killed a great headline
Our gombeen leaders would rather our people die than buy the Sputnik V vaccine.
Micheal Martin wouldn’t dare offend Biden or vonderLeyen.
We have replaced British rule by becoming a corporate vassal state.
@roscommonrebel: not everything the Russians do is a conspiracy because Russia is a huge country with a huge number of talented scientists.
However, there’s still a big question with no obvious answer: why is Russia exporting all of these vaccines before it has even a *reasonable* proportion of its own population vaccinated?
You would genuinely get the impression that Russia is MORE interested in exporting the vaccine, than protecting its own population.
Obviously it could just be for expanding their sphere of influence, which is the position everyone seems to assume. But that’s a REALLY large price for Russia to pay for it.
@Gerard: Tell that to the 9 million Stalin ‘Sacrificed’. Russia’s track record is remarkable in that regard and they remain very calculated with their global influence agenda comrades !
That said, if it works and is available, I for one would welcome it if it speeds up our pathway back to some kind of normality.
@Gerard: interesting
@Gerard: Making money for the oligarchs who control these companies is more important than the lives of the Russian people. We should not buy the Sputnik vaccine.
@Gerard: I think you will find that Russia is making the vaccine in other countries rather than exporting. I have no idea of volumes made where but over 1billion vaccines are on order and being produced in India, Brazil, China, South Korea, Hungary, and I read that Italy is also to produce the vaccine. Only about 5% of the vaccine produced in Russia is exported. Makes interesting reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_V_COVID-19_vaccine
@roscommonrebel: this is the same Russia that is poisoning its political opponents?
@Bill O’Cearbhaill: ah lad, come on now…. Get your head out of YouTube and go out for a walk
I see this as just another attempt to try and assuage the incandescent European public who can’t quite believe how incredibly absurd the EU have been in relation to pausing the AZ roll out and their pitiful procurement of supplies.
@Robert Clifford: EU didn’t pause AZ
@Robert Clifford: you’re starting to come across as the kind of guy that spends a lot of time shaking his fist at the sky…
@Pseud O’Nym: Not today. What a day!!!!
Why is there no discussion about the lack Moderna vaccines coming into the country.Moderna has only provided 3.2% of the total amount so far .According to the app that’s just 19,000 of the over 600,000 doses distributed.Thats a tiny amount for 3 months since it was approved.There was a photoshoot with Stephen Donnally taking in the first 10,000 in January and we have only received 9000 since then.Surely this is a bigger supply issue than what’s happening with astrazeneca but I have seen no coverage of this anywhere
2.2 million, Just tell astrazeneca to go scratch like new Zealand and only use Pfizer vaccine, we are small country we don’t need 10 different vaccines
@Hugo Bugo: there is no scientific basis for your suggestion.
@Hugo Bugo: that would be fine but we have paid 2/3 of the price up front to cover research and development as did other countries who signed contracts last year. If we cancel the contract on the basis of failed delivery then the only refund we get is the uo front money left, which is probably none. No vaccine company would have developed a vaccine without advanve sales and deposits. If we tell the EU we do not want to draw down our allotted vaccines from one company then the EU is unlikely to divert any to us from another supplier. The AZ contract is available on line to review is I got anything wrong.
It’s 110,000 extra over the next 3 months and 2.2 million in total. Very misleading headline, sure isn’t that they way of the world ..
If you take all the ifs, buts, maybes, ” and my understanding is” out of the equation, the position seems to be as follows:
We’re going to get something sometime. It will be effective to a certain extent and will last an unknown amount of time.
When all the over 70’s are vaccinated the risk of mortality has decreased enormously so I presume the lockdown will end then? Ah only joking, this is Ireland, where nobody will be allowed move until everyone in the world has been vaccinated
Is this on top of the 46,500 announced last week? Could The Journal actually do some journalism?
@Ned Gerblansky: ah Ned get your heAd out of your beHind, wake up and smell the coffee. Or not…all the one to me. Only offering good insight to the sleeping masses
Awwww, 110,0000…..how cute
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