A dangerous dog who had been sentenced to be euthanised in a bid to keep his owner out of jail has been given a reprieve after seven years.
Toni Sue Stacey was convicted for owning a dangerous dog after Staffordshire Bull Terrier Niko attacked a killed a neighbour's cat in 2015.
The judge at Albemarle County Circuit Court sentenced Ms Stacey to 90 days in jail, but suspended her prison sentence on the conditions that she remain of good behaviour, and that Niko was euthanised.