A TEENAGER has been charged with causing unnecessary suffering to two dogs in Reading.

Toni McNamee-Boyd, 19, of Coronation Square, Tilehurst, is due to be in Reading Magistrates Court on Friday (February 24) to address the charges.

The teen has been charged with ‘causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal’ between September 16 and September 30 last year.

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McNamee-Boyd allegedly failed to investigate or address the cause of two dogs’ poor bodily condition and weight loss.

The dogs in question are a namely a cream male Sharpei known as Bruce and a brown male Staffordshire Bull Terrier type dog known as Tino.

The case was due to take place last week but has been adjourned to February 24.