A pet owner whose dog bit a neighbour has been ordered to muzzle it by a sheriff.
Joanne Ferguson's Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Ziggy bit Malcolm Allan, 32, twice in May this year.
Ferguson was ordered to stay out of trouble for six months and to muzzle Ziggy, warning the dog could be destroyed if she did not.
She was told by Sheriff Ian Miller: “Ziggy the dog will need to be restricted when you take him out the house.
“It’s up to you to keep him under proper control. If you do not there will be no other way to deal with it other than for it to be destroyed.”
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that Mr Allan initially stepped in to protect his own Lhasa Apso pet at his flat in Glasgow ’s Castlemilk.
He told Ferguson, 41, to put a leash and muzzle on her pet days before Ziggy left him needing six stitches.
Ferguson pled guilty to owning a dangerously out of control dog which attacked Mr Allan to his injury.
The court heard that her dog continually barked at Mr Allan’s pet in the garden.
Mr Allan said: “I told Joanne to keep it under control and keep a muzzle on it and put it on a lead.”
But, Mr Allan was later confronted by the dog after it ran into his flat to attack his pet.
He said: “It was wanting my dog, it wasn’t wanting anything else.
“I grabbed it and it latched on to me and I hit the floor before it let me go.
“It went for me again and I protected my face and it went for my elbow.”
Mr Allan was able to get the dog out the flat before going to Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, for treatment for the bites.
Lawyer Philip Cohen, defended, pleaded with Sheriff Miller not to destroy the dog and promised Ferguson would muzzle him.
He added: “She doesn’t want to be put into this position again and you can be satisfied that the order will be complied with.”
