A Mansfield man who kicked his dog "with force" before throwing it over a fence has been banned from owning animals for the rest of his life.
Witnesses saw elderly Cavalier King Charles spaniel Milly cry out in pain after Paul Boath kicked the dog before throwing her over the fence outside his Willoughby Court house.
Boath, 53, then failed to provide his pet with proper and necessary veterinary care after inflicting what the RSPCA described as "chronic pain".
Appearing at Nottingham Magistrates' Court for sentencing on May 6, he was disqualified from keeping animals for life and handed a 26-week suspended sentence.
Boath had pleaded guilty to failing to provide Milly with the proper and necessary care and attention for the causes of her pain.
At an earlier hearing on April 21, he was found guilty in his absence of causing Milly unnecessary suffering by the infliction of blunt force trauma and physical violence.
RSPCA Inspector Rachel Leafe, who led the investigation for the animal welfare charity, said: "Boath failed to get any veterinary treatment for Milly’s pain and she had been crying for a week and a half.
"When she was taken to a vet Milly was crying all the time, especially when the right side of her face and right side of her abdomen were touched.
"Her level of pain was so bad that vets used methadone to make her comfortable. X-rays were taken and revealed she had rib fractures."
A report by the vets said that the dog was "yelping" following treatment, and had been hesitant when people went to touch her.
The report stated: "The dog appeared to be painful or reactive to touching, yelping especially when touched along her right jawbone and later along her lumber vertebral region."
Boath cannot contest the ban on keeping animals for five years, and alongside his suspended sentence he was told to undertake rehabilitation activity.
This includes 10 rehabilitation activity requirement days, and an alcohol treatment requirement. He was also ordered to pay £750 costs and a £122 surcharge.
Despite receiving extensive veterinary care and treatment, sadly Milly later suffered heart failure and was unable to breathe so vets made the difficult decision to put her to sleep to relieve her suffering.
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