A former mayor and her daughter have been banned from owning animals after they kept almost 70 pets in squalid conditions at their home . Pamela Ann Crisp-Beard , 63 , and her daughter Maria , 24 , kept a menagerie at their cramped semi-detached property in Horncastle , Lincolnshire . Their pets included 15 rabbits , a golden pheasant , two guinea pigs , five mice , two rats , a cat , two dogs , four domestic ducks , a goose and 22 chickens , a parrot and two ferrets . Squalid conditions : Pamela Ann Crisp-Beard ( left ) , 63 , and her daughter Maria ( right ) , 24 , kept a menagerie . Investigation : Neighbours contacted the RSPCA in January last year over concerns about the animals . Variety : Their pets included 15 rabbits , a golden pheasant , two guinea pigs , a goose and 22 chickens . Neighbours contacted the RSPCA in January last year over concerns about the animals and officers discovered they were living in appalling conditions . Their home was in such a state that welfare officers said it was ‘ knee-deep ’ in faeces . The duo were found guilty of six animal welfare charges at Skegness Magistrates ' Court in December last year . Yesterday they were banned from keeping animals for life and given an 18-month conditional discharge at the same court . Pamela Crisp-Beard - who was Mayor of Horncastle between May 1997 and May 1998 - was also ordered to pay £10,000 towards the costs of the RSPCA prosecution . Home : The mother and daughter kept the animals at their cramped semi-detached property in Lincolnshire . Dog 's breakfast : Their home was in such a state that welfare officers found it was ‘ knee-deep ’ in faeces . Conditional discharge : The duo were found guilty of animal welfare charges at Skegness Magistrates ' Court . Magistrates said they took into account that the offences were caused by ‘ neglect rather than downright cruelty ’ after the pair told the court they loved their pets . Pamela Crisp-Beard , who also served as a councillor between 2003 and 2011 , told the court : ‘ We love our animals . We always have done . All we have tried to do is look after them. ’ The court heard the pair kept some of their animals indoors , including in a bedroom , at their home , while others were left in the back garden . RSPCA inspector Deborah Scotcher told the court when she visited the house her feet squelched on the hall carpets because they were sodden with urine . Caged : Magistrates said they took into account that the offences were caused by ‘ neglect rather than downright cruelty ’ after the pair told the court they loved their pets . Dirty : An RSPCA inspector said when she visited the house her feet squelched on the hall carpets because they were sodden with urine . Last straw : Shockingly , the rabbits had become so desperate to escape they had ‘ created a network of tunnels ’ through knee deep compacted faeces . Shocking mess : The court heard the pair kept some of their animals indoors , including in a bedroom , at their home , while others were left in the back garden . Shockingly , the rabbits had become so desperate to escape they had ‘ created a network of tunnels ’ through knee deep compacted faeces . Days gone by : Pamela Crisp-Beard in 1997 as Mayor of Horncastle with her daughter Maria , then seven . She gave the pair three days to improve the situation but when she returned there was no improvement . So the inspector came back a third time with two police officers and a vet on January 29 last year , and took the animals away . Pamela Crisp-Beard also pleaded guilty to two further charges of having a dog dangerously out of control in a public place . Jim Clare , prosecuting , said the first offence took place when a man was walking his poodle which was attacked by a lurcher-type dog owned by the Crisp-Beards . He added : ‘ The lurcher had sunk its teeth into the poodle which was yelping and defenceless. ’ The second incident involved a 13-year-old daschund which was also attacked by the lurcher while Pamela Crisp-Beard walked her two dogs . For these offences she was also given an 18-month conditional discharge and will also have to pay vet costs of £330 and a victim surcharge of £15 . Ruth Harrop , defending , said both mother and daughter had suffered from mental and physical distress because of the case . She added : ‘ Their inability to cope was neglect rather than cruelty . ‘ They struggled to cope because of the sheer number of animals , many of which had been handed to them as rescues . They were not just pets but family members . ’
Pamela Ann and Maria Crisp-Beard kept a menagerie at cramped home . The couple were convicted of animal cruelty in the UK after their pet dog was found to have been starved for days on end by its owner.