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A CRUEL pet owner has been jailed after RSPCA inspectors discovered her house of horrors littered with dead and decomposing animals.

Animal welfare inspectors were horrified when they made the grisly find at Tracey Tindall’s Bradford home in November last year.

Among the dead and dying animals was a bullmastiff, whose rotting body was still chained to its kennel.

Inspectors also found dead rabbits, a black cat, a border collie and two of its puppies, two more cats which had to later be put down and a lifeless bearded dragon.

Bradford magistrates court heard that when Inspectors Evans and Weston had surveyed the property they were met by Tindall who was returning to the property from the doctors.

She explained how she had been living with her mother who was suffering from dementia in a different property, but had been regularly returning to tend the animals.

Further inspection uncovered a scene of filth with animals faeces and rubbish strewn across the home and garden.

Prosecuting for the RSPCA, Mr Andrew Davidson said: "When the inspectors went into the living room, the floor was covered in faeces. There was no water present for the animals.

"When they went into the dining room, under the table was the body of a black cat which appeared to have recently died.

"In a cage they found a bearded dragon which appeared to be lifeless and had no light or water.

"In the dining area, the inspectors saw four puppy training crates. The right hand crate had the decomposing bodies of two puppies.

"Miss Tindall said the puppies had been in the crates for a couple of weeks to stop they chewing or wrecking the place.

"In the left hand crate there was the carcass of an adult collie."

Many of the surviving animals were found to be in a horrific state when they were rushed to the vets, with many rated as one out of five on a body condition index.

Tindall, 46, confirmed she had been solely responsible for the animals and that they had not been looked after as "she would have liked".

Mr Davidson added: "Miss Tindall said she was feeding them when she could but the money she received didn't go far.

"She explained she had no gas or electricity for a month and that she couldn't clean up because she didn't have cleaning products or hot water.

"These animals suffered for a long time because of the deprivation of food and the conditions they were kept in.

"There were far too many animals to be looked after in a property of this size."

As Tindall sobbed in the court, Ms Sara Lyle, mitigating, admitted her client was drinking heavily and was in a depressive state as a result of looking after her mother, who sadly passed away two days after the RSPCA found her animals.

Ms Lyle added: "There is not a word to describe how remorseful Miss Tindall feels."

She was handed an 18-week sentence following the neglect which magistrates chair Beryl Eakin described as "very harrowing".

Tindall, who pleaded guilty to 11 charges of failing to meet animal needs and nine of causing unnecessary suffering, was also disqualified from keeping animals for 20 years and an order was made to seize the two cats and five kittens still in her possession.

Read more (caution: GRAPHIC IMAGES): http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...l-neglect.html

What a vile piece of work, deserved a far longer sentence!! She can afford cigarettes yet not pet food... TRASH.