COQUILLE — Bobbye Cikanek knows she probably won’t be able to own horses anymore.

But the woman convicted of abusing and neglecting 10 Tennessee walking horses hopes a Coos County Court judge will let her continue breeding and owning more than a dozen dogs living on her North Bend property.

The likelihood seemed remote at a Friday morning sentencing, when Judge Michael Gillespie abruptly halted her hearing and pushed it forward two weeks. The Coos County assistant district attorney told the judge she is concerned about the horse and dog breeder’s ability to care for any animal. Upon hearing Cikanek’s description of her income from selling pug pups, the judge said he thought she was lying.

He demanded proof.

“I don’t believe one word of what you said, to be honest,”  Gillespie told Cikanek. “If you can’t document it, you won’t have those dogs.”

Cikanek and a roommate, who co-owns the home on Waymire Lane, care for more than 20 chickens, five cats, 14 pug puppies and dogs, and one Boston terrier. She asked the judge to let her keep the dogs, saying their sales supplement her income. Cikanek said she still owns a home in Nevada, along with the one in North Bend, which she can’t afford to leave.

“I cannot maintain three households. I maintain two as it is,” Cikanek said.

She told Gillespie she charges between $400 and $600 per pup and had sold about 13. After figuring out the math, the judge said it seemed unlikely that she could be making $750 per month on the dogs and ordered her to prove it or lose them.

Gillespie then attached the sentencing to a scheduled restitution hearing on Nov. 20. The judge noted he had no intention of sending her to jail.

The 64-year-old seemed unfazed as she stood with public defender Allen Goldman. She said she had registered records of her sales through the American Kennel Club.

“I was unhappy that he felt that I was lying to him, but I have the proof,” Cikanek said later.

In October, a six-person jury convicted Cikanek of one count of first-degree animal abuse and 10 counts of second-degree animal neglect. Coos County Animal Control officers and sheriff’s deputies confiscated Cikanek’s 10 horses in May, after people complained she was neglecting malnourished equines with overgrown hooves and a foal lying in the mud.

She could face a fine of $6,250 and up to a year in jail for the Class A misdemeanor; and $2,500 per B misdemeanor, along with six months per charge. The state also is seeking $5,182 in restitution for feed, veterinary services and farrier costs for the animals to be paid to the Coos County Mounted Sheriff’s Posse Rescue Horses, which cared for the animals.

At the beginning of the hearing, Coos County Assistant District Attorney Shani Krumholz said she wanted the judge to order maximum probation for the defendant and to prevent her from owning any livestock during probation.

Goldman attributed his client’s behavior involving the horses to having too many animals and not enough money. He explained that when she moved near Kentuck Slough from Winnemucca, Nev., her income was stretched in transporting and acclimating the animals.

Cikanek said she had never intended to keep all the horses. She only wanted two or three and to live off money from selling the others.

 She had tried selling them in Nevada and California and then again in Oregon. Here, she found she couldn’t move the animals without testing for equine infectious anemia, as required by the U.S. Department of Agriculture when horses are brought into the state.

Cikanek’s next hearing is set for 9 a.m. on Nov. 20.