--- description: "Clearly this is something I am very, very sorry about," he told a court on Wednesday title: CEO Fined $5,000 for Kicking a Doberman Puppy image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # CEO Fined $5,000 for Kicking a Puppy by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 16, 2015 4:16 AM CUT by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 16, 2015 4:16 AM CUT Des Hague, the former CEO of U.S. catering company Centerplate who was caught on camera kicking a puppy in an elevator, has been [fined](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/des-hague-former-ceo-of-centerplate-sentenced-for-animal-cruelty-1.3034701 "undefined") $5,000 and banned from owning an animal for three years. Hague pleaded guilty to animal cruelty in February after surveillance footage from a Vancouver hotel elevator surfaced in August 2014\. It showed him kicking a Doberman puppy five times and tugging the dog into the air by its leash, reports CBC News. In the wake of the incident, Hague resigned from the top job at the company, which employs around 30,000 staff. He was also ordered by Centerplate to donate $100,000 to animal charity. “Clearly this is something I am very, very sorry about,” he told the court on Wednesday. “I can assure the court these incidents will never happen, ever again.” \[[_CBC_](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/des-hague-former-ceo-of-centerplate-sentenced-for-animal-cruelty-1.3034701 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3824548/ceo-kicking-puppy-des-hague-centerplate-animal-cruelty/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3824548/ceo-kicking-puppy-des-hague-centerplate-animal-cruelty/"},"headline":"CEO Fined $5,000 for Kicking a Puppy","datePublished":"2015-04-16T04:16:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:49.080Z","description":"Surveillance footage shows the now disgraced executive kicking the animal repeatedly","url":"https://time.com/3824548/ceo-kicking-puppy-des-hague-centerplate-animal-cruelty/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Canada","Vancouver","CEO","animal","animal cruelty"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3824548/ceo-kicking-puppy-des-hague-centerplate-animal-cruelty/","name":"CEO Fined $5,000 for Kicking a Puppy"}}]}] ```