New Zealand Dog News

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January 11, 2006

Judge spares dog in cat-killing case

The mystery of a city-dwelling cat-killing dog remains, after the case against one of the prime suspects was dropped in the New Plymouth District Court yesterday.

Since the beginning of last year, a number of cats have been mauled and killed by a dog, or dogs, in the area of Powderham, Dawson, and Vivian streets.

Yesterday, charges against dog owner Angela Carole Kirkpatrick (26) were dropped when Judge Robert Murfitt said it could not be proved beyond reasonable doubt that her dog, Teorka, was responsible for a cat attack last year.

Kirkpatrick had earlier denied one charge of owning a known dangerous dog that was at large in a public place and one of failing to control a dog that attacked a cat.

......Judge Murfitt said there was an element of doubt about the identification of the dog that carried out the September attack and no cat carcass was found on Kirpatrick's property. He dismissed the charges. (click on title to read what's in between)

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