Animal charity, My Lovely Horse Rescue, have described scenes of two dogs kept in a small crate at the Thursday Market in Mitchelstown last week, which were allegedly for sale, as ‘absolutely disgraceful’.
Video footage of two dogs, which appear to be a Yorkshire Terrier and Jack Russell, in a small crate with no water or food, circulated online drawing a strong public response condemning the conditions the dogs were being kept in.
In a statement shared by My Lovely Horse, they said the dogs were reportedly being offered for sale for €200 each and were ‘sitting in a crate for hours, with concerns raised that they had no access to water’.
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