Belfast dog Lennox put to sleep after 2-year fight

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.newsday.com/news/world/belfast-dog-lennox-put-to-sleep-after-2-year-fight-1.3829627

Belfast dog Lennox put to sleep after 2-year fight

Originally published: July 10, 2012 1:39 PM
Updated: July 11, 2012 8:32 AM
By The Associated Press



DUBLIN - (AP) -- A pug-nosed Belfast dog named Lennox, who inspired a two-year legal fight and animal-rights protests on both sides of the Atlantic, has been put to sleep by city officials.

Belfast City Council confirmed the 7-year-old dog was put down Wednesday after a deadline for legal appeals expired.

Dog wardens deemed the pit bull-type dog to be a public danger and seized him from his owners in April 2010. Northern Ireland's senior appeals court last month upheld two 2011 court rulings that Lennox should be put down.

His owners argued that Lennox was not even a pit bull, never attacked anyone and could be resettled outside Northern Ireland rather than killed. An online "Save Lennox" petition and social media campaign spurred protests in Belfast and New York seeking his freedom.

[truebrit71]

1. Words cannot explain how sad and angry I am about this...

...if that were MY dog, arses would be getting kicked right about now...I hope that the bastards that were involved with this have a MUCH less easy end than Lennox did...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. I don't understand the Belfast City Council's aggression...

1). There were many valid adoption requests from outside of Belfast. They ignored every one of them.

2). They refused to let the family have a final visit to "say goodbye."

3). They refused to give the dog's body to the family for burial, saying they would instead provide "some" ashes.

4). The world was watching, and they knew it, and they deliberately chose to take this course of action.

[truebrit71]

3. Because they're all heartless bastards?

...Like I said..if it were my dog....

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. This definitely smacks of an agenda.