A MUM given a lifetime ban on owning animals after letting her dog starve to death was previously given a 10-year ban for a similar offence, the Times can reveal.
Wendy Shaylor, aged 41, of Coventry, appeared before city magistrates last Thursday because she abandoned her spaniel at her previous home in Achal Close, Foleshill.
The court heard she had left it there with hardly anything to eat or drink for two months, along with two cats, when she moved to Coundon with her children last year.
Shaylor, who now lives in Three Spires Avenue, Coundon, admitted two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a dog from July 1 to September 19 last year and six counts of failing to meet the needs of two cats and a dog between August 23 and September 19.
She received an 18-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months and was ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work.
She was also disqualified for life from owning, keeping, or being in contact with any animal.
The body of the spaniel was discovered by RSPCA officers on September 18 last year after a neighbour alerted them to two cats scratching on the front windows of the home.
Gaynor Sutton, prosecuting, said both cats survived the ordeal, but officers later discovered the dog wrapped in a blue and white jacket and dumped in a black bag in the upstairs bedroom.
The decomposed body had been left to rot for at least a month.
The court heard that hunger pangs had hit her so hard she ended up eating bits of rubber and tried to munch on empty tin cans of food. She also made scratch marks on doors of the house.
Andrew Sharp, defending, said: “She admitted she had responsibility of the dog and cats at that address. She is very much to blame in this matter. She made attempts to feed them but it was woefully inadequate.”
He said Shaylor had been seen visiting the premises but “didn’t visit often enough”.
Herchran Boal, RSPCA officer for the Midlands, said in 1991 Shaylor was given a 10-year ban on owning animals.
She said: “I’m extremely pleased with the result, especially because she had got a lifetime ban.
“I know she got a suspended sentence, maybe because she has kids to look after, but I think she more than deserved being in custody for what she did.
“It was so horrific and callous to leave the animals in that condition.
“Going outside is what saved the cats, they probably caught a pigeon or two to survive.
“The whole thing was so inhumane.
“In 1991 Shaylor was actually given a 10-year ban from owning, keeping or being in contact with any animal.
“But yet she has done the same thing again, so that is why this is a pleasing result for the RSPCA.”.
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