Two dogs to be put down following attacks, despite urgent pleas from owners

Brett Henry appealed an order to put down his american pitbull, Mitimiti, after the dog bit a man’s arm in an Auckland park so aggressively the man needed stitches. In his recently released judgment, Justice Simon Moore said Henry had failed to comply with court directions on no fewer than six separate occasions. Another dog, Bro the Husky, will also be euthanised as a result of lost appeals. A separate High Court judgment shows he brutally attacked a small dog, resulting in its death, when on a run with owner Geraldus Regtien.