Cruel man who filmed sick rat torture Snapchat video and neglected puppies allowed to keep pets

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A man who starved a litter of puppies and filmed a sick video of himself torturing a rat to train his dog to kill has been allowed to keep pets.Animal welfare officers have slammed Liam Fair's sentence after he was banned from keeping animals - apart from the four dogs and four ferrets in his care - for 12 months.

The 21-year-old was sentenced at Perth Sheriff Court on Wednesday.The court heard how Fair, from Crieff, filmed himself swinging a pet rat by its tail to encourage his dog to kill it in October 2022.

The sickening scene, which was shared onto his Snapchat, shows bragging Fair picking the rat up and hurling it around by the tail.He then goes on to smash the rat into his dog's face in order to provoke the canine into the fatal attack.

The clip was reported to the Scottish SPCA (SSPCA), who ruled that the rat suffered severe psychological and physical suffering during the incident.The charity also received screenshots taken from Facebook where Fair publicly admitted feeding his dog live rats as a method of training his dog for pest control purposes.