Following the second major seizure of her dogs in three months breeder Fiona McCoy says she is being targeted by the RSPCA.
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Ms McCoy’s Maryheather Kennels had 21 dogs taken from her Wendouree house on Friday.
The RSPCA said it was taking the dogs out of “squalid conditions”.
The February seizure saw the RSPCA and City of Ballarat take 53 dogs from Ms McCoy and business partner Dan Murphy.
Ms McCoy maintains those dogs were waiting for transport to high country near Wodonga, but has said she regrets not having the proper paperwork.
She said the “squalid” conditions her dogs were being kept in before this seizure, according to the RSPCA, was just overnight mess that she was about to clean up when the rangers and police arrived on Friday.
Ms McCoy said having over 20 dogs in her suburban house was only temporary.
“We were looking for another property urgently, trying to get out of this mess,” she said.
The RSCPA seized her Ms McCoy’s laptop and a hard drive, as well as documents relating to the dogs, she said.
She also said she thought the RSPCA – under Operation Cacatua – was planning to charge her with running a puppy farm, which it calls officially an “intensive breeding operation”.
She said she had not informed council about the latest litter of puppies, born after the February seizure, but had intended to get them microchipped this week after they turned six weeks old.