A couple from Inverness are 'devastated' as they claim their tenant formed a 'filthy dog farm' in their cottage.
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00:00 One morning our neighbour rang and said, "I'm really worried, I don't know what's going on,
00:05 shall I knock the door?" And I said, "Yeah, fine," because these puppies were along the track. She'd
00:09 obviously parked her car along the track, so potential buyers wouldn't see the puppies in the
00:16 car in that state. I would never have bought a prospective buyer into here, it was so bad. You
00:20 opened the door and the smell was awful. I cuddled the puppy for an hour. Yeah, we were more concerned
00:28 about the puppies, weren't we, and what was going to happen to them because they're just awful. You
00:34 know, one of the puppies was absolutely caked in faeces, you know, it was just horrendous. It would
00:41 have been, oh, it was just awful. And the smell and the poor puppies that were, you know, they were
00:47 robbing us because we fed them. They were starving. No, I haven't because of all this trouble, so I
00:52 said, "You better get and feed them." Anyway, she came out with two cans of dog food, which really
00:56 should be given to puppies. Yeah, they're too young. She scoops them into the bowl and these
01:01 four puppies wafted it down and all the others had nothing. I said, "You need to do more than that.
01:06 Is that enough for this volume of puppies and dogs you've got?" And she just shoved her shoulders.
01:12 And she went, "Mother, it's you two busy keep looking at her phone." We're devastated. We've
01:18 worked hard to get the cottage and to do this and obviously we're not spring chickens and having to
01:25 come in. I was up here last night till half eleven, cleaning this out, opening the windows, trying to
01:31 get some air through there and the mess that was everywhere. I was trying to put stuff in the
01:36 washing machine and the washing machine was absolutely covered with poo, mud, everything. I
01:42 had to get a cloth to wipe the panel so I could actually see which thing I was pushing into the
01:46 washing machine. That's how bad it was in the kitchen. Yeah, we're devastated, aren't we?
01:54 So, puppy wise, we think there are 15. There may have been more. They were really difficult to
01:59 count. There was a cage with the five to six week old ones in. The mother of those was here running
02:09 around the house and then there were more aged about 10 weeks, were they? And they were running
02:18 all over the house. We think there was 15. Feces, urine, puppies were caked in feces.
02:26 Yeah, the house was just feces everywhere. Urine, feces. She'd thrown cans of dog meat all over my
02:38 lovely beds and the lids were strewn everywhere. Puppies were cutting their feet. In fact, there
02:44 was a lid in the cage with the puppies which a police officer had to get in and get out. Thankfully,
02:50 we have wonderful neighbours. Who were vigilant and told. Who were very vigilant and said. So,
02:58 I think otherwise, but we can't go back to meet and greet. It's just not possible for us. It
03:04 doesn't work for us. We're going to have to carry on with self-checking, aren't we? And then just
03:09 just keep our fingers crossed and hope that everything's okay.