Twenty-three year-old Logan Smith from Springburn admitted leaving the XL Bully named Juno on the street wrapped in a blood-stained sheet.<\/p>\n
Author: Connor Gordon Published 10 minutes ago<\/p>\n
A Glasgow man has been banned from keeping animals for ten years after dumping his dog in the street after it swallowed drugs in his home.<\/p>\n
Twenty-three year-old Logan Smith from Springburn admitted leaving the XL Bully named Juno on the street wrapped in a blood-stained sheet.<\/p>\n
A sheriff todayheard the 23 year-old’s “lack of education” led to him abandoning Juno when he needed urgent help. <\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty to a charge of causing the dog un-necessary suffering. <\/p>\n
Smith was spared a jail-term, but banned from keeping animals for the next 10 years. <\/p>\n
He was previously locked up for almost two years in May this year for slashing a friend leaving part of his ear hanging off. <\/p>\n
Smith has since been freed and is currently subject to a supervised release order as part of his release. <\/p>\n
Smith and his partner had bought Juno on social media in November 2023. <\/p>\n
Just a month later, the woman who sold the dog then learned he wanted to put the pet back up for sale. <\/p>\n
Juno was then tragically found dead outside in city’s Hawthorn Street on January 2 2024. <\/p>\n
Fiscal Ryan Diamond told Glasgow Sheriff Court: “The dog was wrapped in a white sheet with spots of blood around it. <\/p>\n
“There was blood coming from the mouth, which was identified as being from some form of trauma.” <\/p>\n
Police later caught up with Smith in February 2024 due to an unrelated matter and he was arrested. <\/p>\n
He remarked: “I want to find out what is happening.” <\/p>\n
A post-mortem was carried out on Juno. <\/p>\n
Mr Diamond told the hearing: “The vet said that the most significant finding in relation to Juno’s cause of death was the skull fracture which was described as extensive. <\/p>\n
“It was concluded that this was consistent with one or possible multiple blunt force impacts as both sides of the dog’s head were injured.” <\/p>\n
Juno had also sustained a serious eye injury as well as bruising to the top and both sides of her head as well as the underside of her skin. <\/p>\n
Mr Diamond: “When the dog was examined, the injuries would have been 24 to 48 hours old. <\/p>\n
“She would have survived the initial head trauma for that period of time, but would have resulted in pain and suffering.” <\/p>\n
Phil McWilliams, defending, told the court Smith claimed to be “ashamed” of what happened. <\/p>\n
The solicitor advocate said Smith accepted he and his partner had been it “difficult” to look after Juno due to the costs involved. <\/p>\n
It is not known exactly how the dog was hurt, but the court heard the pet was said to have eaten an “edible” – some form of food with drugs infused – while the couple were out. <\/p>\n
Mr McWilliams: “Due to his lack of education, he did not identify that the dog required urgent medical assistance – he did not know what to do.” <\/p>\n
As well as the pet ban, Sheriff Gerard Bonnar put Smith on an electronic tag for seven months as an alternative to custody. He must stay indoors between 7pm and 7am. <\/p>\n
Sheriff Bonnar said: “This is an appalling case.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-three year-old Logan Smith from Springburn admitted leaving the XL Bully named Juno on the street wrapped in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-407994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115169128879072637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407994","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=407994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}