Owner keeps dog after film review

A district judge finalised his decision about a dog who bit and injured a girl and, after seeing a DVD of the dog being walked where children were present, said the owner could keep the dog.

The mother of the injured child had testified in court previously that she did not understand why her daughter had to grow up in a neighbourhood with the dog still living there.

“I don’t know why that dog has to be given another opportunity,” she said. “I don’t see why she has to grow up where the dog is [rather than the dog being given to another owner in a more suitable place]. My daughter is the victim, not the dog, not the owner of the dog.”