Two police officers have been banned from keeping animals for five years after admitting abusing their two dogs.
Anja Mason and Craig Macleod were filmed by a worried neighbour, who watched Tess, a collie pup, and Snoopy, a rottweiler, being abused at the couple's house in Prestatyn, north Wales.
Mason, 29, and Macleod, 34, pleaded guilty last month to causing unnecessary suffering to the animals.
After McLeod admitted two counts of causing unnecessary suffering and his girlfriend admitted one count, they breathed a sigh of relief hearing they would not be jailed.
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Denbigh magistrate Wendy Gibbs had said a custodial sentence could not be ruled out.
But she told them they would be banned from owning or keeping any animal for five years and she ordered each of them to pay costs of £1,267.
She sentenced Macleod of 180 hours' unpaid work and Mason to 120.
She said: "We are not sending you to prison. We have considered all the facts and read the reports.
"Pain and terror were inflicted on both those dogs and a risk of injury by kicking them."
"We have taken into account your early guilty pleas and previously unblemished character and your co-operation with the inquiry."
November 25, 2008
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