Owner Will Go for Broke to Save Dog
The distraught owner of a rare dog will sell his house if necessary to get money to fight an order that his 225-pound Old English mastiff be destroyed for biting two children.
Gene Stump, 38, said his dog Loki is the last of two surviving males in the United States from the 1715 British Ramsgate line.
The El Dorado County Animal Control Department ordered the 2-year-old mastiff destroyed for biting two children last year. The decision was upheld by Superior Court Judge Charles Fogerty Jan. 3. But Stump won a delay in the dog’s death sentence from the 3rd District Court of Appeal.
He said Friday he has already sold two cars and a gun collection and has used up his inheritance to pay legal fees that have already exceeded $6,500.
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