Islander Jason Gomes said that dogs should be judged on how they behaved and not how they looked, and stressed that his pet, Mr Bronx, was not dangerous.
This week Mr Bronx was judged by a court to be of the pitbull terrier type – which are illegal to own without a licence – after ten months of what the family described as ‘hell’ since the animal was seized by Customs in February.
The future of Mr Bronx, who since his seizure has been kept in kennels at the JSPCA at a cost of more than £6,000 to the States, now lies in the hands of Customs officers and the Home Affairs Minister, Kristina Moore. They must choose between giving the family a licence to keep the dog, which was bought as a Christmas present for Mr Gomes’ young daughter Kiki, or destroying him.
Full story in Saturday’s JEP.
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