A PET owner who let her cats and dogs starve in "appalling" conditions in her house has been jailed, the Telegraph and Argus reports. 

Tracey Tindall, 46, left some dead animals to decompose while other emaciated pets were barely alive, and even ate other dead animals to try and survive, magistrates heard today.

Tindall, who had alcohol, depression and anxiety issues and was struggling to cope with her ill mother, was sentenced to 18 weeks imprisonment after admitting 20 animal neglect charges.

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