A couple found guilty of animal cruelty are on the run from authorities in South Australia with up to 100 dogs in a trailer, the RSPCA says.
The society's spokeswoman Aimee McKay is calling for local communities between South Australia and Victoria to be on the lookout for two people pulling a trailer carrying a large number of dogs.
Last week Joseph and Margarete Higham were found guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court of 11 counts of animal cruelty.
They failed to attend court for the trial, were convicted in their absence and absconded before being sentenced.
The charges related to about 170 dogs seized after RSPCA raids on properties at Swan Reach, east of Adelaide, and Eudunda, north of the city, in 2006 and 2007.
Ms McKay said many of those dogs were suffering from mange and other health problems including fleas, worms and some had infected wounds.
She said it was now feared the same problems would befall the dogs still in the Highams' possession.
A warrant has been issued for the couple's arrest and the RSPCA believes they might be headed for Victoria.
She said people were being asked to look out for anybody travelling in a twin cab ute with an enclosed trailer with any number of dogs of various breeds with them.
The couple might be moving the dogs in batches to various locations, she said.
"Anything that resembles that at all, it's better to call police and we'll check it out," she said.
"It's better to report it and nothing come of it than to let an animal cruelty offender slip through the radar."
Ms McKay said it was believed the couple suffered from a type of mental illness which led to their behaviour.
"Like people hoard things in their garage, they hoard dogs," she said.
ninemsn 7 May 2008
Lets give the doctors something to do, like a new name to their sickness like ADHD ILCTA ( I like cruelty to Animals).
Just plain and simple TpT on the run with their trailer trailing.
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