{"id":41785,"date":"2026-07-01T00:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/41785\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T00:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:20:22","slug":"two-fined-banned-from-keeping-dogs-for-5-years-after-malnourished-animal-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/41785\/","title":{"rendered":"Two fined, banned from keeping dogs for 5 years after malnourished animal seized"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people have been disqualified from owning dogs after a severely emaciated animal was rescued by RSPCA inspectors in Tasmania and nursed back to health.<\/p>\n

WARNING: This story contains an image that may distress some viewers.<\/p>\n

Inspectors attended a property in the state’s south after concerns were reported for the welfare of a dog named Lexi.<\/p>\n

Lexi was found in an “extremely emaciated condition, with a body condition score of approximately 0.5 out of 5”, the RSPCA said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Lexi was “immediately seized and transported for urgent veterinary treatment,” the RSPCA said, adding the dog had “since made a full recovery and has been successfully rehomed”.<\/p>\n

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Lexi in her undernourished state. (Supplied: RSPCA)<\/p>\n

The matter was heard before Hobart Magistrates Court in separate proceedings involving co-accused Susan Bester and Jake Elliot.<\/p>\n

Bester was fined $500, ordered to pay approximately $1,200 in costs to RSPCA, and disqualified from owning or having custody of any dogs for a period of five years.<\/p>\n

Elliot initially pleaded not guilty but subsequently entered a plea of guilty to the offence of animal cruelty.<\/p>\n

He had a conviction recorded, was fined $500 and disqualified from having custody of any dog for a period of five years.<\/p>\n

The RSPCA welcomed the disqualification orders, which it said would “help protect animals from future neglect”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been disqualified from owning dogs after a severely emaciated animal was rescued by RSPCA inspectors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6384,22,21,6392],"class_list":["post-41785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-rspca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}