Gwyn Jones at an earlier hearing

Gwyn Jones, 60, of Penmachno, near Betws-y-Coed, had admitted the charges at an earlier hearing.

They included failing to remove a cow's carcass a week after it drowned in a flood.

His solicitor said Jones had been confused by new regulations.

The charges were brought by the trading standards department of Conwy Council.

The offences were failing to provide proper bedding for a cow, failing to remove the carcass of another cow, and allowing an ewe to have access to a sheep carcass.

The district judge at Prestatyn court, Andrew Shaw, said that it was as much common sense as good animal practice to remove carcasses promptly and provide proper bedding.

Granville Rooney, defending, said the cow, which had been dead for a week, had drowned in a flood.

'Carcass charges'

Jones had been confused by new regulations and had intended to bury the animals but then had to go into hospital with a leg problem, the court was told.

Regarding the unsuitable bedding in a cowshed, Mr Rooney said the explanation was that Jones had been away that day but the animal had stood in a gully of slurry and "mucked up the straw".

When he earlier appeared in court, his solicitor said that the effect of the case on Jones had been "devastating".

He was fined �1,000 on each of the carcass charges, �500 for not providing proper bedding and he must pay �5,000 in costs.

Jones was three times British supreme sheepdog handler and in 1988 won the BBC's One Man and His Dog competition.