{"id":27141,"date":"2025-09-17T05:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27141\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:09:10","slug":"woman-banned-from-owning-animals-after-starving-puppy-found-with-bullet-in-leg-100-fishbones-in-stomach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27141\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman banned from owning animals after starving puppy found with bullet in leg, 100 fishbones in stomach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Patchy was put down after the pet pitbull cross was discovered emaciated, with a bullet lodged in its leg and fish bones in his stomach. Photo \/ SPCA\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Patchy was put down after the pet pitbull cross was discovered emaciated, with a bullet lodged in its leg and fish bones in his stomach. Photo \/ SPCA<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">SPCA chief executive Todd Westwood said the case was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/shocking-neglect-that-upset-spca\/RETOLOEJCQL73CP4YHGGRBDRZU\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/shocking-neglect-that-upset-spca\/RETOLOEJCQL73CP4YHGGRBDRZU\/\">heartbreaking example of neglect.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA puppy\u2019s early start to life is a time where it should be the most joyous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt 5 months old this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/animal-cruelty-spca-finds-starving-life-chained-dog-in-south-aucklands-papakura-owners-sentenced\/ZEUAXPD6QJDM7LW6C2U5SM2DAQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/animal-cruelty-spca-finds-starving-life-chained-dog-in-south-aucklands-papakura-owners-sentenced\/ZEUAXPD6QJDM7LW6C2U5SM2DAQ\/\">puppy was suffering in pain, misery and starvation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe owner had every opportunity to seek help from a veterinarian or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/spca\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/spca\/\">SPCA<\/a> for food or assistance&#8230; but chose not to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs a result, Patchy\u2019s life ended before it even began.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">The woman admitted to inspectors she had noticed Patchy was in pain and gave him antibiotics and paracetamol in his food. She said she could not afford to take him to the vet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">The owner  was sentenced to nine months\u2019 supervision and 100 hours\u2019 community work. She was also disqualified from owning all animals for three years and ordered to pay $828 in reparations and $250 to cover legal fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patchy was put down after the pet pitbull cross was discovered emaciated, with a bullet lodged in its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3548,74,50,26977,1558,26985,26980,8321,26982,1874,26885,71,2070,26984,78,26981,26983,111,43,139,69,3178,26979,5161,26978,4185,102,1354],"class_list":["post-27141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-3548","tag-after","tag-animals","tag-banned","tag-been","tag-bones","tag-bullet","tag-fish","tag-fishbones","tag-found","tag-fractured","tag-from","tag-full","tag-hip","tag-in","tag-leg","tag-lodged","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owning","tag-puppy","tag-sentenced","tag-starving","tag-stomach","tag-with","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}