Compensation order for owner of dog that escaped from garden in Wick and bit walker
A Wick man whose dog bit a dog walker has been ordered to pay him compensation of £500.
The accused, Terence Pace (67), previously admitted that his dog, a boxer named Blake, was dangerously out of control and Sheriff Neil Wilson called for a vet’s report on the dog.
The victim, James Baillie, was walking his dog and had entered Macrae Street in Wick, when he noticed a gate beside the accused’s house was open and the white and brown-coloured boxer without harness or lead had walked into the middle of the road.
Fiscal Depute, Grant Maclennan, said that Mr Baillie knocked on Pace’s door in Macrae Street, to alert him about his dog being loose.
Mr Maclennan continued: “Blake noticed Mr Baillie’s dog and attacked it, biting it a few times. Mr Baillie tried to keep Blake away, but it bit him on the left hand.”

Mr Baillie was treated in hospital for the wound which broke the skin and he also sustained bruising.
Solicitor Fiona MacDonald told the court, previously, that Blake had been in a fenced area where he didn’t require a muzzle but unfortunately, and unknown to his owner, had managed to escape through the gate which was open at the time.
Miss MacDonald told Sheriff Wilson this week that the accused had behaved since the incident and had engaged with an animal behaviour therapist.