A puppy thief who stole four dogs worth $20,000 has dumped his appeal in a Bendigo court.
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In 2021, it’s alleged the man and another assailant attended a dog-breeding business in a silver Mercedes Benz before stealing the puppies, pushing the business owner to the floor and fleeing the the property.
The victim’s impact statement described how she spent two days in hospital.
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She added that many clients lost trust in her business after the incident.
Image: West Midlands Police, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.