Cardinia Council Deliberate Not To Put Down Hero The Staffy

A decision has been made by the Cardinia Council in Melbourne not to put down a staffy that mauled a dachshund to death.

The council completed a thorough investigation into the incident that happened earlier in the month within a Pakenham park.

Kashila Chintamunnee’s three dogs ran to a nearby park where Claudia Harrison was walking her miniature staffy called Hero.

In a Facebook post, Chintamunnee said that her staffy mauled one of her dachshunds, Coco, and subsequently killed her. She added that the owner reportedly walked away after the attack.

According to Claudia Harris, the owner, though, she was trying to protect her son while separating the dogs, but by the time Chintamunnee came over, it was too late.

A spokeswoman for the Cardinia Council told media outlets that no further action would be taken concerning the event.

Before the decision was made, public opinion supported Harrison, and there was a petition calling for the council not to put down Hero.

The petition was dubbed ‘save Hero the Staffy,’ and it was initiated on Thursday morning. It received more than 16,000 signatures within five hours.

The petition read the owner’s aim is to urge the Cardinia Council not to put the dog to sleep.

The petition also claimed that Coco’s owner had put a fake story in social media to paint Hero in a bad light, however CCTV footage has emerged showing the facts of the case.

Harrison also said that Coco’s owner had changed her story so many times in a bid to look innocent, and that spoke volumes of the situation.

Coco was a dog half the size of the Staffy, and he was accompanied by two other dogs when they attacked Hero. Coco being a dachshund was a smaller breed, and it was inevitable that attacking a smaller larger dog would cause her a lot of injuries.

Harrison stated the three dogs were snapping at Hero, and that is when he got a hold of Coco, and after that, it was impossible to get him off.

Michael Faltermaier, the lawyer representing the Harrisons, said justice for Hero had been attained.

Mr. Faltermaier claimed they wanted to thank the hundreds of thousands of supporters the family got on the matter.

He said that in his years as an attorney, he had never seen such a positive response from the community and well-wishers.

He said that it should be a timely reminder that pets are like children and so they need to be watched closely.