Herry cruelty to animals: Process against breeder begins in Ried!

Herry cruelty to animals: Process against breeder begins in Ried!

shattering revelations have excited Austrian animal lover. On Monday, January 16, 2025, three accused in a controversial cruelty process, the terrible incidents that took place in Gilgenberg in early 2023 were involved. In a dramatic raid, the animal protection house Pfotenhilfe made 55 animals - including dogs and cats - under miserable conditions. The breeder, who had already received a ban on animal husbandry for repeated cruelty to animals, is one of several defendants who are determined for illegal animal trade and commercial fraud. Reports by ots.at describe the merciful state of the animals that lived in cold and dark, while some of them were kept in the neighboring house under shocking conditions Hardly got any food and water.

The reports of the victims in the so-called “torture cellar” of Ansfelden, where 44 dogs were discovered in a catastrophic state, even dead. Pfotenhilfe employees documented the brutal abuse and demand that the judiciary should exhaust the maximum penalty of two years for the animal tollery. "The pictures of the blood -over -flowed dogs with the most serious fighting injuries were unimaginable! These animals earn justice," explains Johanna Stadler, the boss of Pfotenhilfe, angry. She reports of extremely emaciated dogs lived in a dirty basement. The court trial in Linz is pursued by numerous animal rights activists, while reported. In the background, it is already intensively determined, since indications of organized crime and the existence of further “hell” of Latin American breeders and dealers exist.