Overview
- Falkirk Sheriff Court imposed a £2,000 fine and a five-year ban on Graham Alexander McQuet for animal welfare offences, and he avoided a prison sentence.
- Inspectors found six wolfdogs wearing shock and tracking collars and issued a statutory care notice after determining provisions were inadequate.
- Before a search warrant was executed, five wolfdogs were rehomed to The Little Zoo in Wiltshire, whose director reported they arrived unsocialised, injured and in poor condition.
- Officers later searched the property and found filthy conditions, a cannabis cultivation that led to McQuet's arrest, and a wolfdog with a painful neck wound linked to a shock collar.
- An eight-month-old wolfdog named Artas was discovered dead in a hallway freezer with a missing leg, which trial evidence said was lost post-mortem, and video seized in the case showed McQuet claiming the animals came from a Russian zoo on fake passports and included types requiring licensing.