CONVICTED (2011) | Eric Buckley (born c. 1955) and wife Doreen (now deceased) of Tower Street, Pontypridd CF37 1NR – kept 9 geese, 2 goats, a cat, 11 former racing greyhounds and a pony in the basement of a former pub
The Buckleys admitted chronic neglect of two dozen animals kept in a squalid cellar at their three-storey home.
The pair had already been banned from keeping dogs for 10 years due to animal welfare breaches in 1993.
After more series breaches in 1995 both were banned from keeping all animals for life.
Then in 2011 they were caught keeping a cat, 11 retired racing greyhounds, nine geese, a pony and two goats in a former pub in High Street, Gilfach Goch, Rhondda Valley.
Shocked RSPCA officials found the couple’s “stinking” home to be infested with animal faeces.
At one point up to 13 greyhounds had the run of the rambling three-storey former pub, used by them as a toilet.
Most, however, were kept in an unlit cellar whose floor was almost an inch deep in animal waste.
A vet brought in to administer to the animals once they were located was forced to extract 34 rotting teeth from the mouth of one dog.
Four of the dogs were suffering from flea infestations, ear infections and oral disease with subsequent veterinary treatment for the animals amounting to £13,333.
RSPCA inspector Nicola Johnston said when Eric Buckley was approached about the conditions and asked why he kept so many animals, he answered: “Why not?”
The property was in such a putrid condition it was regarded as proof of breaching animal welfare rules alone.
Eric Buckley admitted all the charges against him while his wife failed to attend but had previously made full admissions of all charges through her lawyer.
Sentencing |
Eric Buckley: jailed for 12 weeks. Banned from keeping animals for life.
Doreen Buckley: 12 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months. Lifetime ban on keeping animals.
I have the ditry @@@@**** living next door to me at 60 Heol-Y-Twyn, Wattstown, Rhondda Cynon Taff. Their garden is dirty and full of stuff. He is a hoarder. His son lives with him and they have a snake and a dog. RSPCA state the son can have a dog even though he cannot. The son leaves the dog with the father when he goes out. This surely should be wrong and illegal. Their all on the dole and claiming PIP and drive around in vehicles. The daughter had the cheek to say we wern’t a nice family when we don’t bother any one only because of parking issues as my partner has spinal cord damage yet I found they were evicted from Gilfach Goch where all 4 kids lived and Eric and Doreen for the state of the premises and animal cruelty but dodged the RSPCA until caught in Pontypridd. Why does Trivallis keep putting shit by me all the time.
he lives next door to me Wattstown Heol Y Tywn and he is disgusting there house is disgusting when my packages get sent to them when i am out and can’t answer the door, i go to them and as soon as they open the door i want to throw up because they stink they don’t shower!! there poor dog man i feel so bad for the dog, all there rubbish and trash in there garden fall into our garden when it’s windy it’s disgusting they don’t deserve a home with the way that they live they’re pigs and need to be sorted out!! there are babies and children and they’re disgustingness is just horrible environment to be around children and babies!! it’s vile they need to locked up. it disgusts me to live next door to them. his son is a major supporter pig i can hear him in the middle of the night in his room talking loudly i can’t sleep there car recently got crashed and i’m sure it wasn’t checked or insured by the law because they ordered a new bumper and replaced it themselves.