Martin David Clifton and Rebecca Louise Clifton (Picture: SWNS)

The owners of dogs who were forced to eat a fellow K-9’s face after they went on holiday and left them to starve have been spared jail.

Martin David Clifton and Rebecca Louise Clifton, of New Houghton, left the pooches home alone while they went to Skegness.

RSPCA inspectors were called to the property after an anonymous tip last October.

Starving Rottweiler Rox ate another dog’s face (Picture: SWNS)

They found dogs in their own faeces, blood on the walls and a dead dog with half its face eaten.


David Payne, prosecuting, said that the dog, called Braken, had been killed fighting with the other two Staffies, Tyke and Dude, and had been eaten by the Rottweiler, called Rox, out of desperation, reports Dispatch.

The dogs were left to starve and fight each other (Picture: SWNS)

The Cliftons were both sentenced to 12 weeks in prison suspended for 18 months.

They were banned from keeping dogs for seven years and ordered to pay £2,000.