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| A pet owner from the West Midlands who killed his dog by putting it in a washing machine has been jailed for four months. | A pet owner from the West Midlands who killed his dog by putting it in a washing machine has been jailed for four months. |
| Andrew Glazzard, 41, Dudley, put the Staffordshire Terrier/Labrador cross breed, Maisie, in the machine after it fouled the floor of his home. | |
| Halesowen Magistrates' Court heard he was drunk at the time and put the dead dog in a bag then threw it in a river. | |
| Glazzard, of Falcon Way, admitted causing unnecessary suffering. | |
| He told police he put the animal in the machine for a few seconds to teach her a lesson. | |
| 'Heinous crime' | |
| When she came out she was wagging her tail, so he said he put her back in, switched the machine on and fell asleep. | |
| When he awoke the dog was dead. He put the body in a bag and dumped in the River Stour. | |
| Police photographs taken in Glazzard's kitchen, in Lye in Stourbridge, show bite marks made by Maisie in the drum of the machine. | |
| Magistrates told him that he had committed a "heinous and horrendous crime". | |
| Glazzard's solicitor, Amanda Hahn, said he realised he needed help for alcoholism. |