Animal rights activists rallied at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse on Tuesday to save an 8-year-old pit bull who’s set to be euthanized after mauling a neighbor in Burbank.
The 80-pound dog, named Conan, was ordered by a judge to be put down after the attack. But Conan’s family says he has no history of aggression and the bite victim had been harassing the dog for months.
“Every day she would scream at him, kick the gate when it was closed in front of his house,” said animal rescue volunteer Shira Scott Astrof. “She went out of her way to provoke him, then she went out of her way to provoke his mother, and he's a dog and he's instinctively going to protect his mother.”
Actress and animal rights activist Maggie Q said animal control didn’t talk to Conan’s owners or the neighbors about the dog’s character while investigating the attack.
“They left everything out about this dog's entire reputation,” she said. “That's like saying you or I could make one mistake and everything we've done in our life before then, up until that point doesn't matter.”
Astrof said the animal control officer that went to Conan’s house said he poses no threat, but “for some reason that was omitted from the court record.”
“You can’t have a fair trial, a fair case when you’re missing 80% of the information,” she said.
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A judge has yet to make a decision on whether to reverse Conan’s euthanasia order.
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