Pleasing 4 Pets

A Pontypridd resident whose two dogs brutally killed his neighbours’ pet cat, has been forbidden by law from having custody of any dogs at any point, during the next 10 years. He was also ordered to pay £250 in compensation costs.

The pair of Staffordshire bull terriers destroyed the cat, named Kitty, after being allowed to run loose outside the home of their owner, who pleaded Court guilty at Newport Crown Court to allowing his dogs to enter a public place and cause injury.

The court learned that both dogs chased kitty into her owner Joanne Stones’ garden late at night and butchered her in full view of her terrified owner, who had been on her way to bed and who tried desperately to distract the dogs by shouting from an upstairs window before running outside.

After killing Kitty the dogs then began barking and baring their teeth at her distraught owner and chased petrified Joanne Stone who was by then suffering from shock, back into her home where they continued to bark at her door for a further ten minutes.

After the dogs left Kitty’s body was retrieved from the garden by a devastated Joanne, who then called the police.

The Judge hearing the case claimed that the behaviour was not the fault of the two Staffordshire bull terriers but was that of their irresponsible owner, who had failed to control them.

The court was advised that both dogs have been destroyed since the attack.