A Crufts gundog trainer let three dogs bake to death on a hot summer's day by leaving them for seven hours in the back of his Land Rover.
Andrew Claridge-Fleming, 57, abandoned the four dogs in crates in his Land Rover Discovery at a farm in Hampshire - and has now admitted causing unnecessary suffering to animals.
He claimed he had left a door and the boot open for the dogs when he was unexpectedly called away from his Ashley Manor Farm home in New Milton.
And he told a court that he was 'shocked' to find the boot closed when returning to the vehicle hours later.
Inside were the tragic dogs Milo, a six-month-old fox red Labrador, cocker spaniel Bodger and a cockapoo named Rocky, all of whom had died of heat exhaustion.
