{"id":201476,"date":"2025-06-21T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201476\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T03:03:12","slug":"jailed-birmingham-man-left-his-dog-to-suffer-with-untreated-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201476\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed: Birmingham man left his dog to suffer with untreated injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Leonard Rowlands, aged 44, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to an animal by failing to get veterinary treatment, after an investigation and prosecution by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspca.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSPCA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The animal charity was contacted with concerns after reports that a dog owned by Rowlands had been left to suffer with an untreated injury at his address in Newstead Road, Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1ee6853a-56df-4e5b-bcbc-51f6e7e55906.jpg\"   alt=\"Kane's wound caused by a fight with another dog\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Kane&#8217;s wound caused by a fight with another dog<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Officers were shown Kane, an eight month old black and white Boxer type dog, with a large laceration across his entire neck and cheek.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dcdde02d-231e-42aa-a9ab-daba1f69158a.jpg\"   alt=\"The wound after it was cleaned up by an RSPCA vet\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The wound after it was cleaned up by an RSPCA vet<\/p>\n<p>The injury, which had not been seen by a vet, had been caused after a fight between Kane and his other dog.<\/p>\n<p>The vet who examined him found he had a large infected wound covering his neck and cheek. Kane required hospitalisation in order to have his wounds cleaned and surgically treated before recovering in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspca.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSPCA<\/a> care.<\/p>\n<p>RSPCA Inspector Fiona Howell, who investigated for the animal welfare charity, said: \u201cAnimals deserve to live healthy lives and are reliant on owners to be given everything they need including vet care if they need medical treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the ten year ban from owning animals, which he can not appeal for five years, he was also sentenced to four weeks custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kane, and a second dog named Able, were both signed over to the RSPCA during the court hearing for rehoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Leonard Rowlands, aged 44, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to an animal by failing to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-201476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}