Evening Standard
Friday 9th July 1999
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£2,500 'ransom' releases dogs from kennel |
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Two dogs "held to ransom" at a controversial quarantine kennel are back in Canada after their owner handed over £2,500 for their release. The Greenveldt Kennels, in Kimpton, near Hitchin, only agreed to let Hetty and Houdini, a Dalmatian and a whippet, go after owner Professor Louise Jackson parted with the cash.The sum covered six months quarantine even though the animals had only been there for one month. But Professor Jackson, 42 an anthropology professor who is staying in Chalk Farm, was so desperate to get them out that she felt she had no choice but to pay because of what she claimed were "disgusting conditions" and sores and lesions the animals sustained. This whole thing has been a nightmare. I feel really bitter. I haven't been able to sleep. I believe this could happen in what is supposed to be a nation of animal lovers," she said. |
By ANDREW DON "I sold my house in Vancouver to come here. Now I can't wait to get back. If I don't see England again, it won't be too soon." Both the Ministry of Agriculture and Hertfordshire Trading Standards have confirmed that an investigation into the kennels is underway, while Professor Jackson is considering legal action. Responding to the Professor's allegations, Wayne Green, one of the kennel's proprietors, told the Evening Standard last month: "What you are saying astounds me." His father, Lawrence, added that the dogs' bedding was washed and changed twice a week. |
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