Farmer left his pack of shivering sheep dogs to live in squalor with nothing to eat but rotting pig carcasses

A disgraced farmer has appeared in court after he was found to have kept a pack of shivering dogs feeding on rotting pig carcasses in squalid conditions.

Animal welfare officials found collies caked in mud and fighting over the decomposing body of a dead pig on Leon Henry Smith's land in Okehampton, Devon.

Smith, 62, who was already banned from keeping cattle and sheep for previous offences, kept 13 dogs in a filthy open wire pen.              Read More