WINNIPEG – A Manitoba couple who crowded more than five dozen dogs into a filthy building on a rural property are appealing their sentences for animal abuse.
Peter and Judith Chernecki say the judge was too harsh.
Peter Chernecki was sentenced in February to four months in jail and his wife was fined more than $21,000.
More than half of 64 dogs seized in 2010 from the couple’s property in the Interlake region had to be destroyed.
Court was told the dogs lived in darkness in a tiny cabin near
Gull Lake, the floor covered in straw, mud and excrement.
No date has been set for the appeal.
The couple had over 40 cats as well, but the judge ordered that they get rid of all but two of them. The Cherneckis have also been banned from owning animals for five years.
Peter Chernecki told court during his sentencing that he regretted what happened. His wife said she never hurt or abused an animal.
Defence lawyer Jay Prober said at the time that the sentence was unfair for people doing their best to operate an animal shelter.
(CJOB, The Canadian Press)
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