A cruel dog owner has been slapped with a 12-month ban on owning, keeping or working with animals after causing "considerable pain and discomfort" to his puppy by illegally cropping his ears.
Kane, a six-month-old American bully, had belonged to Andrew Dean Kirkland, 32, from Airdrie in North Lanarkshire. The dog was seized from Kirkland's care on April 30, 2021, after SSPCA officers attended his property and found Kane to have had his ears clipped.
With worries mounting for his welfare, the pup was rushed to a veterinary surgery where medics discovered that three quarters of both of the flaps on his ears had been removed, thought to be around three weeks earlier. There were also dimples either side of the wound, which indicated the use of suture material - the instruments used during surgical procedures.
