was fined $200 for allowing his unlicensed dog to stray.

Stuart Outerbridge, of Harrington Sound Road, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to not having a valid licence for his Elk Hound, and allowing it to stray.

Police prosecutor Sgt. John Dale told the court one of Outerbridge's neighbours telephoned the Police on January 15 because two dogs were fighting outside her door. One was a brindle coloured Pit Bull and the other was an Elk Hound.

Outerbridge told the court his nine-year-old dog had had a kennel and run in which he spent 90 percent of the time.

"From time to time I would let him out to run around,'' he said. "He would go down to my neighbour's yard because she loved animals. She fed the animal every time he went down there.

"I had no control of him.'' On the day of the incident, a Pit Bull also strayed into the neighbour's yard.

It attacked Outerbridge's Elk Hound.

Outerbridge said when his 11-year-old son received a telephone call from the neighbour, the neighbour was distraught because she loved his dog and she wanted him to come down and save it.

Outerbridge said his dog did not stand a chance because he bled to death of a severed artery.

"A Pit Bull is known to everybody,'' Outerbridge said. "There are countless stories of Pitt Bulls hurting people and animals.'' But Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis fined him $100 for letting his dog stray and for not having a licence.

Sgt. Dale said the owner of the other dog will also be prosecuted.