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Man facing jail after he kept 6 fighting dogs in squalor next to dead animal

A man kept six bulldogs for regular dog fights in squalid conditions alongside the bloodied corpse of another hound for two days, a court has heard.

Alexander Walker pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering and failing to care for his dogs after police caught him digging a grave for a dead dog in woods.

The bulldog called Major died after being savagely attacked in a park by another dog two days before the find, Manchester magistrates heard.

The 37-year-old kept three adult American Bulldogs and three puppies next to the wounded corpse at his home in Prestwich, Manchester, for two days.

After following Walker to his flat an inspector found the floor was filled with rubbish and needles. All of the animals had severe wounds from regular fights and excrement was caked into their paws.

Paul McCormick, representing the RSPCA, said the stench could be picked up outside. He said: "The inspector realised the smell was emanating from the property, and saw a swarm of flies. He could see a large amount of excrement, both old and new, all over the floor. There was so much it was impossible not to step in it."

The remains of a cannabis factory were also found, and the only food in the flat was a piece of cake next to Major's corpse.

Unemployed Walker, of Windsor Crescent, said he had bought his first American Bulldog after being stabbed in the chest in 2011 and kept dogs for protection.
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He faces imprisonment for up to a year, and fines of up to Ł20,000 for the neglect, as well as being banned from keeping animals for life. He will be sentenced later this month.

The case comes as the shocking scale and brutality behind dog fighting shows how pets are being snatched from the street to be used as bait for fighting dogs while yobs are training their animals by biting them themselves.

Vet Bartosz Ropelewski told the Manchester Evening News how he is seeing dog fighting cases each week and revealed how he treated a Rottweiler that had been bitten by its owner with the aim of training it to attack other people and dogs.

Bartosz said: "There's a massive problem with it at the moment - it's on a weekly basis, there's so many cases.
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"Owners are training these dogs to fight and they are ripping these other dogs apart. I think there are a lot of dogs being used as bait around here - we've had quite a few cases.

"It is mainly pitbull and rottweiler types which seem to be attacking other dogs.

"Currently, one dog attacking another is not classed as a crime but treated as a civil matter. Police can only step in and bring a prosecution if a dog attacks a person."

Full article and photographs here...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...r-kept-4415473

Sickening.

I hope he is given the maximum possible sentence.

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