A 42-YEAR-OLD man has been banned from keeping animals for a year after his dog died when he left it in a car on a hot summer day.
James MacDonald <<corr>>admitted causing unnecessary suffering to his Rottweiler at Banbury Magistrates court on Friday <<Nov 6>>.
MacDonald, of Powder Mill Lane, Whitton, near Twickenham, was visiting a friend in Burford Road, Chipping Norton, in August when he left six-year-old Sasha<<corr>> in the car for at least an hour and 45 minutes.
Outside temperatures were higher than 22°C on the day, and although passersby alerted the RSPCA and the police the dog was dead before rescuers broke one of the car’s windows.
When a vet took the dog’s temperature it was too high to register on a thermometer which had a maximum reading of 42°C.
MacDonald was also fined £250 and was ordered to pay £489 in costs, as well as a £15 court surcharge.
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