A greyhound trainer who kept starving hounds next to the remains of dead dogs in "disgraceful conditions" at her farm has been jailed. Rebecca Perkins, 42, also kept the greyhounds in barns where the smell of faeces and urine was "overpowering and almost unbearable".
Scarborough Magistrates Court how the state of Perkins' farm was discovered after a steward from the Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) visited. Upon arrival at the farm, he found a black greyhound that was struggling to get out of a small plastic portable kennel.
He also found several thin and very underweight greyhounds in stable blocks - and the skeleton of a small dog that had been there for some time. When Perkins returned home, he asked her to open the main kennel block, where he saw dogs in shocking conditions who were "extremely thin and emaciated".
