If she tries to use the Mental Health route, I hope the assessing Psychiatrist - who has to be section 12 approved and is invariably an ex GP or certainly GP qualified - sees through that excuse and decides that, at the time, the balance of her mind was not depressed and that her actions were based on hurting the man she sought to spite.
I have little time for people who try that one on. I've seen a few who, with money troubles, say they went 'mental' and spent on he two or three credit cards they were given........drug addicts who have spent out and are completely broke so do something hoping to get into a unit for a bit of rest, recouperation and - of course - methadone treatment......and while I should not say it, I have very little time for those who try it on. If she gets away with this, then the RSPCA should bring a private prosecution in - or her ex partner should at least get her banned from ever keeping a pet.
Washing machine and her I agree with. Then, that's too easy. Nic, alas, is probably going to be right.
Damned woman deserves the full weight of the law and haven't we just been notoified that the law on pets is on the verge of changing?
Jonty