A man who housed 10 \u201cseverely emaciated\u201d German Shepherd dogs in filthy conditions has been jailed for three months and disqualified from keeping animals for 10 years.<\/p>\n
Gavin Brilly (33), of Clarkstown, Rathmolyon, Co Meath<\/a>, pleaded guilty at Navan District Court<\/a> to six charges of cruelty and neglect of the dogs on January 26th, 2024.<\/p>\n A prosecuting lawyer said an Irish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals<\/a> (ISPCA) official and Meath County Council<\/a> dog warden Alan Nolan visited the premises and found a build-up of faeces and urine on the floor of all the kennels. <\/p>\n In most cases, the court heard, the dogs had no option but to lay down in these conditions. All the dogs were visibly underweight and some had movement difficulty as a result. <\/p>\n Conor Dowling, ISPCA chief inspector, and Mr Nolan found that six dogs on Brilly\u2019s premises were unlicensed and just one was microchipped. <\/p>\n Five of the nine kennels had multiple dogs in them and were deemed too small for housing such numbers. Five of the nine kennels had no water and four others had dirty water. One dog found there was deceased and partially decomposed.<\/p>\n All of the dogs were \u201cseverely emaciated\u201d, the court heard. <\/p>\n The dogs suffered due to a lack of care and the fact there was no food or water. Older dogs had anatomical abnormalities, which the court heard could be attributed to nutritional deficiencies. <\/p>\n A veterinary expert reported that the dogs were severely underweight and housed in inappropriate conditions, which led to considerable suffering, the lawyer said. <\/p>\n When the ISPCA official released the dogs, they ran out \u201cand tried to lick anything that had moisture in it\u201d, the court heard.<\/p>\n A defence lawyer said Brilly had entered a guilty plea at an early date to ease the burden of bringing witnesses to court and had taken total responsibility for all matters. <\/p>\n He admitted the dogs were neglected to a serious extent, saying his client had an unusual incident while golfing the previous October, when a ball bounced off a steel barrier and struck him, causing a concussion. <\/p>\n This led to Brilly having some difficulties afterwards and he was also having a \u201crough time\u201d due to family issues, he added. <\/p>\n The lawyer handed in photographs which he said showed the dogs had previously been kept in excellent condition. Things had come apart very quickly in Brilly\u2019s life, which led to the dogs falling into the state in which they were found, he added.<\/p>\n Judge \u00c9irinn McKiernan said the case was a very serious one involving wonderful animals who relied completely on their owner. <\/p>\n She said their ill-treatment could not be tolerated on any level, describing it as \u201ccompletely and utterly unacceptable\u201d. <\/p>\n The judge imposed a three-month prison sentence on Brilly, directed him to pay costs of \u20ac23,000 and disqualified him from keeping animals for 10 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who housed 10 \u201cseverely emaciated\u201d German Shepherd dogs in filthy conditions has been jailed for three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5721,61,60,26684,15949,26685,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-33956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-district-court","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-irish-society-for-the-prevention-of-cruelty-to-animals-ispca","12":"tag-meath","13":"tag-meath-county-council","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}