Forced to sleep with rotting carcasses in faeces-smeared caravan… hellish puppy farm that reveals horrors of vile trade
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ROTTING carcasses fed to Rottweilers surrounded by sun bleached pig skulls sounds more like a scene from a Tarantino movie than the back garden of a leafy London suburb. But these were just some of the horrors uncovered at the Surbiton home of a young mum described as a pivotal player in an international animal smuggling ring.
![[Thirty-six dogs, including puppies, in a squalid caravan.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/whole-floor-covered-faeces-urine-962339025.jpg?strip=all&w=745)
Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35, walked free despite a court hearing the scarcely believable catalogue of cruelty she had shown. Dozens of animals were found starving and dehydrated in soaring temperatures, living in their own filth, infested with parasites and infections.
![[Micaela Anderson-Letts leaving Kingston Crown Court after sentencing for animal welfare offences.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/micaela-anderson-letts-departs-kingston-962208555.jpg?strip=all&w=639)
Pigs, chicks and hens were forced to compete for food leaving them injured, starved and without water in soaring summer heat. Offal and entrails were also dumped in the Surbiton garden where Rottweilers roamed around pools of congealing blood and faeces.
![[Aerial view of Surbiton, London.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/disqualified-keeping-dogs-life-gang-408218757_00b0ae.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
RSPCA, police and council inspectors who visited described the stench of rotting animal flesh as overwhelming. But Anderson-Letts is only the tip of the iceberg of the UK’s puppy farming industry. Animal charities estimate the illegal market to be worth millions of pounds annually, fuelled by a rise in the number of people buying puppies online since lockdown.
![[A puppy looking out from a dilapidated caravan with a floor covered in feces and urine.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/whole-floor-covered-faeces-urine-962339043.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Twice as many people bought from social media compared to five years ago, according to The Kennel Club. As many as a third of these puppies are suspected to have come from puppy farms. And tragically, the stats also show that up to a quarter of puppies bought via social media sites become sick or die within a year, often due to the severe mistreatment they faced on these farms.
![[Two Dachshund puppies being rescued from a squalid caravan.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/whole-floor-covered-faeces-urine-962338929.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
