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A woman has been jailed after authorities found her home was full of dead and decomposing animals.
Following the grim discovery Tracey Tindall, 46, was sentenced to 18 weeks for 20 offences, in what prosecutors called one of the “most serious” cases of animal neglect on record.
It is believed three dogs, five cats and a bearded dragon were all found in Tindall’s Bradford home in the UK in November 2015.
While a “significant number” of the animals had died the ones who had managed to survived were in a “poor state”, Bradford Magistrates Court, West Yorkshire, heard.
RSPCA prosecutor Andrew Davidson said welfare inspectors were alerted to Tindall’s home, where they found two dead rabbits in an outdoor hutch, and a large Mastiff dog dead and chained to a kennel by its neck.
When Tindall was confronted by welfare inspectors she said she had been living with her mother who has Alzheimer’s but insisted she was visiting to care for the animals regularly.
However, when officers entered the home it was littered with faeces and there was no food or water available for the animals to live off.
