Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A man who was already banned from keeping horses has been spared a jail sentence despite being convicted of the worst case of animal neglect one vet had ever seen.The cruelty came to light when an animal welfare officer carried out an unannounced inspection of sheep being kept in fields in the Drefach Felindre area, near the town of Newcastle Emlyn in Carmarthenshire.The officer noticed a shed covered with wood pallets and tarpaulin and saw two ponies standing inside in their own faeces, reports Wales Online.Further inspection revealed the cob-type ponies to be standing in waist-high soiled bedding with their hooves badly overgrown and with tails so short that the officer believed the.
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