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Mara Fiore, 31, faced the Heidelberg Magistrates Court on Thursday and was sentenced to a 15 months community corrections order and was banned from owning a dog for five years
A reformed drug addict has avoided jail despite neglecting her poodle Dobby so severely that a vet described it as the 'skinniest dog' she'd ever seen.
The RSPCA attended a home in Mill Park in Melbourne's north-east in December 2017 to find the four-year-old dog had been abandoned in the backyard.
Dobby had been left with no access to food or water, was severely emaciated and his fur was completely matted.
The dog was seized and an RSPCA vet said Dobby was the 'skinniest dog still alive that she had ever seen' weighing just 3.05kg.
Dobby's owner, Mara Fiore, 31, faced the Heidelberg Magistrates Court on Thursday and was sentenced to a 15 months community corrections order and was banned from owning a dog for five years.
Fiore, who
