A dog walker has been banned from 'dealing with or transporting' dogs for three years and ordered to pay almost £500 after leaving a dog to die in a van on a day when it was 30C outside. Pam Fisher admitted one offence under the Animal Welfare Act offence - causing unnecessary suffering to a two-year-old cocker spaniel named Teddy by leaving him in a vehicle on a hot day, causing his death.
Fisher had already said she would close her business after the death of the dog, whose temperature rose to 40C.
On August 11 last year, Teddy's took him to a vet, already dead, after he had been left in Fisher’s van. Teddy’s owner had received a call from Fisher to inform her that she had forgotten to take the dog home and that she found him dead in her van. Fisher said she had dropped off the other dogs in her care but had forgotten that she still had Teddy in her van.
