Ten months after being convicted of misdemeanor animal cruelty, Louis Silva was sentenced Thursday to three years court probation and 300 hours of community service. Silva agreed to drop a claim for animals that had been seized from his Big Oak Valley property and must complete a course in animal care before a judge decides whether he should be subject to a five-year ban on any ownership of animals. Nevada County Animal Control had removed 21 animals from Silva’s Patino Road property, west of Penn Valley, in March 2011 after a report of a dead llama. Officers said they found …