PETS lived in squalor at a Shoreham home piled deep with rubbish, rotting food and animal faeces, a court heard.
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Four dogs, four cats, a kitten and a parrot were discovered living in disgusting conditions at the home of Sheila Hocking when the RSPCA and police executed a search warrant issued by magistrates.
Mrs Hocking, 64, her daughter Rosetta Hocking, 25, and son Richard Hocking, 28, deny the 29 charges of animal cruelty brought against each of them by the RSPCA.
The charges - which are the same for each defendant, all of New Road - date from between July 1 and August 1 last year.
They include causing unnecessary suffering to a spaniel, two Jack Russell terrier puppies, an Amazonian parrot, a collie dog, four cats and a kitten and keeping the animals in an unsuitable environment.
The three are also charged with not ensuring the animals were protected from pain, suffering, injury and disease.
Seven other charges relate to three horses and two ponies kept by the Hockings at stables at Blackstone Lane, Henfield.
The trial continues.
Read more about this story in the Thursday, April 24 edition of the Shoreham Herald.
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