Man banned from keeping small animals (From Banbury Cake)

Man banned from keeping small animals

3:21pm Tuesday 8th December 2009

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A man has been banned from keeping small animals after he admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a guinea pig.

David Hampson, of Poolside Close, Banbury, was banned from keeping rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters and similar animals for five years at Banbury Magistrates Court.

He was also ordered to pay £400 costs and given a three-year conditional discharge.

The case was brought by the RSPCA after a vet found one live and one dead guinea pig in a hutch. It was believed the guinea pig died from starvation.

The court heard that Hampson had left the animals with a relative and was told they had died, but he did not check on them.

Afterwards RSPCA inspector Annabelle Black said: “It is very difficult to understand how anyone could think so little of an animal that they would leave it to starve to death.

“This guinea pig suffered a prolonged and agonising death which was so easily preventable.”

The surviving guinea pig was rehomed by the RSPCA.

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