The Nova Scotia SPCA has charged repeat offender Gail Benoit under the Animal Protection Act.
The charges include selling animals (cats) without a veterinary certificate of health, and refusing to furnish information required by an Inspector or Peace Officer in the exercise of power or performance of duties.
She is scheduled to appear in Dartmouth court to answer to the charges on April 19.
Benoit has been charged and convicted with a number of offences in the past.
In 2013, Benoit was charged with fraud, theft under $5000 and identity fraud.
She was sentenced in June 2014 to 15 months probation in the theft of two dogs owned by a New Brunswick woman.
In that case, the owner alleged she had hired Benoit to dog sit for her, but the dogs were not returned.
Police eventually located the dogs in Bridgewater. They had been bought by a woman, who then resold them.
Benoit’s sentence included a ban from owning, buying or selling any living creature that could be kept as a pet.
In 2009, Benoit and her partner Dana Bailey were convicted on two counts of animal cruelty. Benoit was also found guilty of assaulting an SPCA special constable.
Those charges were laid after the SPCA seized 10 puppies from their Digby County home in 2007.
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