Owner of emaciated, maggot-infested dog pleads guilty

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The owner of a 20-year-old dog that was so emaciated and decayed that maggots were living on it pleaded guilty to causing or permitting an animal to be in distress on Thursday.
Margret Dechambre, 73, pleaded guilty to the offence under the Animal Protection Act more than a year after her dog Sandy was euthanized by the Edmonton Humane Society in May 2016. 
Sandy, a collie-husky cross, lived in the Edmonton home of Dechambre and her common-la