A couple are facing jail time after they starved their three pet rabbits to death.
Jack Pullen, 23, and Allana Silk, also 23, admitted failing to ‘provide adequate nutrition’ to tri-colour female Rosie and their two grey males Ted and Teddy.
The couple also failed to seek medical treatment for the rabbits between August 23 and September 13 last year.
They plead guilty to ‘causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal’ when they appeared at Worcester Magistrates’ Court this week.
The charge was that the suffering was caused ‘by a failure to act, namely by failing to provide adequate nutrition for the animals’ needs and/or failing to investigate and address the cause of the rabbits ‘poor bodily condition and weight loss’.
It was said in the charge that they ‘knew or ought reasonably to have known that the failure would have that effect or be likely to do so’.
The court heard the RSPCA was alerted and an inspector found the rabbits dead at their home in Worcester.
Prosecutor Sara Pratt said it was ‘a serious matter where three animals died as a result of not being provided with veterinary care or adequate diet’.
The pair were bailed and ordered to return to court for sentencing on June 14.
The maximum sentence for animal cruelty offences is five years in prison.
In 2018, a man narrowly escaped prison after being caught brutally killing two pet rabbits and dumping them in a bin.
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Stephen Emsley was witnessed by a neighbour slamming the defenceless creatures to the ground before discarding them as if they were rubbish.
The rabbits, bitten and bashed together by him, suffered horrific and multiple injuries.
Emsley was witnessed slapping another rabbit 16 times, slamming the heads of two pets into each other and forcibly plucking the hairs from a guinea pig.
He was sentenced to a 20-week suspended jail term and banned from keeping animals indefinitely.
The RSPCA found two dead baby rabbits in the bin, which Emsley was not prosecuted for, then pulled out the bodies of the other two rabbits which were bloody and had their intestines hanging out.
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