Some 121,900 people across the globe have now signed a petition to save the life of Lennox, a Belfast dog who is on death row.
Caroline Barnes, the owner of the dog, is awaiting a court decision on the future of the five-year-old pet whose order to be put down prompted a global campaign to save his life. The final decision is due in the next two weeks.
Lennox was seized by a Belfast city council dog warden in May 2010 due to his likeness to a pit-bull. Under the Dangerous Dog Order 1991, pitbull dogs are a banned breed in the North. Barnes maintains the dog is actually an American Bulldog Labrador cross.
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“He was reported by a dog warden who came to my house…who reported him as a pitbull even though she’d only seen a glimpse of him through a gate at the rear of our property,” Barnes wrote on the Save Lennox website.
During the last appeal case in September 2011, Judge Henry Rodgers ruled that Lennox posed a danger to the public and must be put down.
The owners have appealed that decision and the judge has until January 20 to respond.
To sign the petition click here.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Boxerangel | Jan 23, 2012, 10:14 AM EST
LENNOX HAS BEEN DNA TESTED AND IS NOT,NOT OF PITBULL TYPE SO DONT NO WHY THE AUTHORITIES ARE OUIT TO GET HIM WHEN HE HAS DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG,EVER.SHAME ON YOU IRELAND.FREE HIM IT IS THE ONLY RIGHT AND JUST THING TO DO!!!!!
Boxerangel | Jan 23, 2012, 09:48 AM EST
THERES A LOT THE JUDGE COULD DO BUT,HE WONT!!!!! AND WHY,IS IT THE SAME JUDGE EACH TIME????THATS NOT RIGHT!!!!!
Boxerangel | Jan 23, 2012, 09:46 AM EST
LENNOX HAS HAD A DNA DONE AND HE HAS NO, YES NO PIT IN HIM,SO I ASK AGAIN,WHY IS THIS DOG NOT FREE???WHAT IS THE JUDGE PLAYING AT AND WHY HAVE THE LAWYERS NOT SORTED THIS????? IT WILL BE MURDER IF THEY DO THIS TO LENNOX!!!! VERY SAD
Katey122 | Jan 12, 2012, 11:51 AM EST
This is really stupid, you can have a DNA Breed test done for under 20 dollars that will tell you what the dog is. Regardless, to put a dog down just because he is a PIT is showing how ignorant you are of the breed. LOL to IrelandNorth!
IrelandNorth | Jan 09, 2012, 07:21 AM EST
Is he a Catholic or a Protestant dog? Did he attack Orangmen, rotten prods, fenians or taigs? Does he consider himself Irish or British? Surely this is a sovereignty issue more than a environmental. If convicted, is there a canine equivalent of Long Kesh? If convincted, will he claim his attacks were political motivated, and will he be referred to by the tabloids as "Mad Dog" Lennox.
franley | Jan 08, 2012, 12:45 AM EST
Why would they sentence a dog to die because of the breed? It's not the breed, it's the humans that have given pitbulls a bad reputation. They are the sweetest and like any other breed deserve to be loved. REGAURDLESS
TheOldPerfessor | Jan 07, 2012, 10:08 AM EST
Send him to America.