Overview
- Edinburgh Sheriff Court fined Paul Robertson £270, while Alexander Myers received 180 hours of community payback, a £90 fine and a three-year ban on owning dogs.
- The men admitted failing to seek urgent care for a French Bulldog named Miss Piggy, but they denied other charges and no convictions were recorded for the remaining counts.
- Police Scotland alerted the Scottish SPCA to Robertson’s Gorebridge property, where inspectors found 32 dogs kept in dark, poorly ventilated kennels coated in faeces.
- Miss Piggy was euthanised due to severe injuries after at least four weeks of suffering, and five additional dogs were later put down because of poor health.
- Court reports said Myers carried out artificial insemination, blood tests and microchipping despite not being a registered vet, as the Scottish SPCA pressed for formal regulation and an update to the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966.