A man who "over reacted" when his small dog got in to a fight with two Labradors and who had to be handcuffed and restrained by gardai as they waited for a back up van to bring him to the garda station has been jailed for a year.
Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that Marius Karanauskas of Upper Bridge Street in Skibbereen , Co Cork was sitting outside a café with his small dog when the animal came from under his feet on an extendable lead. His dog was involved in a fight with two bigger dogs. The small dog needed stitches and had to be kept in the vets overnight.
Garda Jonathan O’Donovan said that gardai received a call shortly after 4pm on the 29th of March last where they were informed that there had been an altercation between a man and woman off the Main Square in Skibbereen.
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He said when he and another garda got to the scene they observed a woman with two Labrador dogs and a male kneeling on the ground with a small dog. The man was in an agitated state.
