A couple has been banned from keeping animals after an RSPCA inspector found ponies kept in appalling conditions.
Jack Carter, 75, and wife Barbara, 72, both of Bank Bridge, Tarleton, Lancashire, who bred, showed and kept horses for 60 years, both pleaded guilty to three animal welfare offences when they appeared before Lancashire Magistrates on Thursday (20 Jan) in a prosecution brought by the RSPCA.
The RSPCA provided a number of images of the ponies they found. The ECHO has chosen not to use those which were most distressing.
