{"id":19480,"date":"2026-06-18T13:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=19480"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:24:44","slug":"manningham-12000-fine-for-reptile-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2026\/06\/18\/manningham-12000-fine-for-reptile-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"MANNINGHAM: $12,000 fine for reptile cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Warrandyte man has been fined $12,000 without conviction and had the number of animals he can own restricted for failing to provide sufficient care and veterinary treatment to reptiles in his possession.<br>The 37-year-old was sentenced in the Ringwood Magistrates\u2019 Court, after he pleaded guilty to charges under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986.<br>The offences included failing to provide water for 32 snakes and failing to seek veterinary treatment for three snakes and 13 lizards.<br>He also administered carbon dioxide gas to two snakes and eight lizards without authorisation, resulting in their death.<br>In addition to the fine, the man was issued with a 10-year Control Order limiting the number of wildlife he may own.<br>Conservation Regulator Authorised Officers conducted several inspections of the man\u2019s premises across a two-year period, where large numbers of reptiles were being kept.<br>All wildlife in Victoria is protected under the Wildlife Act 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Warrandyte man has been fined $12,000 without conviction and had the number of animals he can own restricted for failing to provide sufficient care and veterinary treatment to reptiles in his possession.The 37-year-old was sentenced in the Ringwood Magistrates\u2019 Court, after he pleaded guilty to charges under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19484,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480\/revisions\/19484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}