CHLOE COOPER – EAST SUSSEX

Chloe Cooper aka Chloe Albert, 23, previously of gillingham, Kent and now hove, East Sussex – kept NINE starving dogs, including four puppies, in atrocious conditions. FOUR dogs put to sleep.

In April 2025 RSPCA Animal Rescue Officer Portia Mearns entered the abandoned Gillingham home of mother-of-two Chloe Cooper to investigate welfare concerns about multiple dogs at the address. One dog – a presa canario called Storm – had already been taken to a vet and immediately put to sleep.

As ARO Mearns pushed open the bathroom door, she began to shake.

Behind the door was Blaze, a rottweiler so weak with hunger he could barely lift his head. A thick white discharge was weeping from his left eye. He tried to stand but simply didn’t have the strength. .
He had to be carried to the officer’s van to be taken to a vet where he was immediately put to sleep.

Blaze was one of nine dogs found in the disgusting property.

Officers described the smell upon entry as immediate and overwhelming, with rotting food, urine and faeces throughout every room.

Four puppies were found in a faeces-covered crate with no water.

A distressed German shepherd called Shadow was locked in the kitchen. Both he and a presa canario named Coda were later put to sleep because it wasn’t safe to rehome them due to their psychological damage.

The surviving dogs have since been adopted from the RSPCA Leybourne Animal Centre.

This week, Cooper received an eight-month suspended sentence and a lifetime ban from keeping animals.

RSPCA video: https://www.facebook.com/reel/982287514201880