A ‘bulldog type’ canine shot useless after attacking two males was pleased and begging for treats simply minutes earlier than.
Armed police were called to Hamilton in South Lanarkshire at round 5pm on Tuesday.
But new CCTV footage recorded inside an area store simply minutes earlier than the attack exhibits the canine, named Zeus, wagging his tail and leaping as much as the store counter earlier than he’s fed a biscuit.
Zeus’s proprietor, named domestically as William Hunter – was additionally seen patting the canine’s head within the footage.
But minutes later Zeus mauled his proprietor and one other man in two separate assaults.
He attacked Mr Hunter in Tinto View, the place he suffered critical accidents, earlier than operating to Loudonhill Avenue and attacking a second man who obtained minor accidents.
Police Scotland shot and killed the canine when it tried to attack an officer. The pressure says they’ll now try to determine its actual breed as at the moment it is just described as a ‘large bulldog-type dog’.
The incident will now be referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) as a result of a firearm was discharged in the course of the response to the incident.
But locals told the Daily Record that Mr Hunter had solely lately rescued Zeus, an XL bully, from England after the breed was added to the Dangerous Dogs record.
Zeeshan Rashid, proprietor of the Local Day Today store the place the footage was filmed minutes earlier than the attack, stated: ‘The dog would come into our shop most days and always seemed very well behaved.
‘He would jump up on the counter to get his dog treats and had a little innocent face.
‘He had been rescued a few weeks ago after he was beaten and abandoned.
‘You could tell he hasn’t been handled effectively up to now as a result of he was lined in scars. It’s tragic that this has occurred.’
The attack comes simply weeks after the XL Bully breed was added to the list of dangerous dogs in England and Wales.
On December 31 it turned unlawful to breed, promote, promote, rehome, abandon, or permit an XL Bully canine to stray. All XL Bullies should be muzzled and on a lead in public.
Last yr, prime minister Rishi Sunak known as the breed a ‘danger to communities’ after Ian Price was killed by two of the dogs while protecting his elderly mum.
Two individuals have been arrested after a woman was attacked in North Tyneside in October, and in Merseyside two boys have been left struggling to sleep after they were both attacked while they played outside their home.
An 11-year-old girl was among three people attacked by an ‘out of control’ XL Bully in September, and final October a toddler was mauled outside a hotel in London.
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