FYI

Ban on farmer, 69, keeping donkeys



A Shropshire farmer has been banned from keeping donkeys for 10 years
after he was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a female animal.

Market Drayton magistrates heard that the donkey owned by 69-year-old John
Savage, of Factory Farm, Loppington, was seized because it was lice infested,
covered in scabs and had a large open leg wound and overgrown hooves.

After a five-day hearing, magistrates yesterday found him guilty of
causing unnecessary suffering to the animal between May 16 and May 30 last year
by omitting to provide it proper care and attention.

The pensioner, who denied the charge, was also fined £1,000 and ordered to
pay £1,000 costs.

Savage, who has kept animals for 60 years, is not banned from owning
donkeys and an application will be made for the animal to be returned to him.

Magistrates agreed that there was a long-standing lice infestation which
led to the donkey rubbing or perhaps biting itself and that would have been
painful.

Savage had claimed that the animal was attacked by a male donkey which had
caused the leg injury and that if he had not isolated the animal it could have
died.

He had also treated the animal with a blue antibiotic spray and expert
witnesses for the defence had questioned RSPCA expert evidence.


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