CONVICTED (2023) | Sarah Bliss, age unknown, of Upper Rectory Farm, Daglingworth, Cirencester GL7 7HY – ran an unlicensed boarding kennels business where a dog died from heatstroke.
Bliss, a huntswoman with the Cotswold Hunt, pleaded guilty to boarding dogs at her home address without a licence and causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
The court heard a dog named Fig was in the Bliss’s care when boarding in the kennels at her home address in August 2022.
Cotswold District Council said Bliss failed to provide any monitoring of the dogs over a period of six hours during very hot temperatures.
Bliss failed to protect Fig and prevent unnecessary suffering caused by heatstroke – which caused the death of the dog later that day in the vet practice.
She was not licensed to provide kennel boarding for dogs at that time. Mrs Bliss had previously been licensed and despite taking on new bookings, had allowed the licence to lapse without renewing it.
Bliss pleaded guilty to both offences.
The court heard she has since closed the kennels.
Sentencing | fined £2,000 and ordered to pay a £400 victim surcharge.
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