Teresa Ellinor adopted pet Cleo just weeks after it bit the 17-month-old girl in January this year.
A woman whose dog left a toddler with "heart-wrenching" facial injuries has overturned a council order to have the animal muzzled. Teresa Ellinor, 57, adopted pet Cleo just weeks after it bit the 17-month-old girl in January this year.
Teresa, of Canterbury, Kent, told the court: "The muzzle is the part I'm not keen on. I just don't want to upset Cleo, and the way that she's being portrayed in that summons letter is not the dog that she is now - she's amazing." Isabella Crowdy, acting for Canterbury City Council , said: "At the time, the dog was being cared for by a woman identified as 'AW'. AW and her mother were attempting to build a crate for the dog when it attacked AW's 17-month-old niece.The infant was taken to hospital and later transferred to St George's in London, where she received stitches for the wounds and later required antibiotics after one became infected.
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