article_snippet.sent: Fuller, of Lawford, Essex, denied causing unnecessary suffering to an animal by not taking an animal  to the vets and failing to take steps to safely secure a dog within a vehicle, but was convicted following a hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court.
article_snippet.sent: Tree surgeons working nearby spotted what had happened and tried to get Fuller, who is a Rhodesian Ridgeback breeder and exhibitor, to stop the car.
article_snippet.sent: Fuller was taken to a vet and given treatment for Fuller injuries, which took eight weeks.
article_snippet.sent: Fuller claimed Fuller had not been aware the rear hatch of Fuller had opened and claimed Fuller had given the one-year-old dog first aid, and had already arranged for Fuller to go to a vet.
article_snippet.sent: Mike Fullerton, defending Fuller, said:  'When Fuller was being restrained Fuller asked why Fuller was not allowed to take the one-year-old dog first aid to a vet.'
article_snippet.sent: Fuller was also ordered to pay £3,000 costs, given a 12 month community order and a two month curfew from 7pm to 7am. 
article_snippet.sent: Fuller and Tango partner Phil Sheldrake, 59, previously pleaded guilty to 16 charges of causing unnecessary suffering and failing to meet more than 40 other dogs that were at her Essex home needs at Colchester Magistrates Court in June.