Owner agrees to dog’s destruction after attack
The owner of a American pit bull terrier-cross dog who bit him in the hip, then attacked his partner’s arm, today agreed to the animal’s destruction in the Christchurch District Court.
Matthew James Robertson, 23, originally opposed Ceazer being destroyed as he was very attached to him, and had owned him for two-and-a-half years.
On September 17 Ceazer attacked Robertson and took a chunk out of his buttock. Robertson shut him into the lounge of his house, but he escaped and went into the front yard, where he attacked Robertson’s partner in a two-to-three minute attack.
Robertson removed Ceazer’s locked jaw from his partner’s arm, and in court today said that if he hadn’t done that she would have lost her arm. She has an option of undergoing plastic surgery for the puncture wounds, he said.
Robertson was charged with being the owner of a dog which attacked a person, and Ceazer has been in Christchurch City Council’s animal shelter since October 2015.
Judge Stephen O’Driscoll said the law was clear that upon conviction of the owner there must be an order for destruction of the dog, unless there were exceptional reasons for the attack.
He sentenced Robertson to 80 hours community work, and to pay reparation for the cost of looking after Ceazer of $1008 to the Christchurch City Council.
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