The Wexford SPCA inspectors, Cabrini Desmond and David Richard, have attended numerous welfare calls over the last number of years but the call on the 14th December 2023 to the property of Brendan Robinson, Effernogue, Ferns, left both of them utterly disgusted. They never had seen dogs living in such horrendous conditions, inches deep in liquid faeces and urine, no water or food present. Utter chaos and filth everywhere. Empty tins and buckets flung in the dirt. Their shelters were deeply soiled and wet. Their coats caked in filth, and many were emaciated.At the front of the dwelling a dog shared its kennel with a decomposed dog’s carcass, hairless and skeletal. In the yard, two dogs shared their kennel with another carcass, partially hidden under a pallet.Seventeen dogs were surrendered to the WSPCA that day and three more on 21st December. Mostly German Shepherds, an Akita, a totally emaciated Rottie and a Wolf cross. The photos show the real state of the premises and the dogs. The smell in the back yard was unbelievable. Inside the dwelling, the inspectors found three dogs in small cat carriers. No food or water with any of them. One was paralyzed, one was emaciated and the third had difficulty walking having been in such a cramped carrier. The case was firstly presented at the Gorey District Court where the Judge was so shocked by the photos, he referred the case to the Circuit Court in Wexford on the 5th November last. This rarely happens in Animal Welfare cases. The society would have liked the Garda and the LA Vet, who were present on the call with our Inspectors, to have been in court. Their evidence, with our Inspectors, would have given a real description of the facts on the day, and of the conditions these unfortunate dogs had been held. Unfortunately none of them were called to give evidence. Allowing defendants to plead guilty and then presenting little of the facts of a case to the public, seems to the WSPCA, a retrograde step for animal welfare.Four dogs were successfully rehomed.