A dog has been banned from a pub after biting a child who tried to pat it. Sandy, a Jack Russell, was asleep on the floor when the 'energetic' young girl grabbed the creature with both hands.
However Sandy, who Preston Crown Court heard 'doesn't particularly like children', bit the child on her shoulder in the Fieldens Arms, Blackburn, drawing blood.
Lancs Live reports the youngster's mum took her to the pub toilets to clean her wound. The child did not require any further treatment.
Owner of the pub, landlady Beverley Holgate-Johnson, 64, claimed the dog had been alarmed by the girl who was a regular at the pub with her family.However she accepted the risk the ageing dog would react badly to a child could or should have been foreseen, and pleaded guilty to having a dog which was dangerously out of control in a public place.Since the incident the girl's mum said her daughter has developed a fear of dogs - particularly those which look like Sandy.The Honorary Recorder of Preston Judge Robert Altham said: "No-one saw the incident but it would seem the child startled one of the defendant's dogs, who bit her on the right shoulder.
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