{"id":532895,"date":"2026-04-15T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532895\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:11:08","slug":"knowle-petsitter-handed-animal-ban-after-beating-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532895\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowle petsitter handed animal ban after beating dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A petsitter and her partner have been banned from keeping animals for seven years after video emerged of them dragging, kicking and screaming at dogs in their care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paige Williams, 26, from Knowle, West Midlands, sought to charge a family \u00a31,400 to care for their three dogs, two cats and two birds of prey while they were away on holiday in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her partner Bradley Archer, 26, from Solihull, also joined Williams at the family&#8217;s home in Balsall Common when the animals were mistreated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple were sentenced at Coventry Magistrates&#8217; Court after Williams admitted an Animal Welfare Act offence, after the RSPCA was brought the prosecution on seeing footage shot on cameras at the family&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A petsitter and her partner have been banned from keeping animals for seven years after video emerged of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-532895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}