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AN Australian couple have spent almost AU$500,000 in a six-year legal battle to save their dog named Tango from being put down by their local government, the Gold Coast Bulletin reported Tuesday.
American pit bulls are banned breed on the Gold Coast, with Kylie Chivers and John Mokomoko taking on the Gold Coast City Council in the Supreme Court over the identification of their dog, in a bid to be able to keep Tango.
However, Judge J Martin Tuesday ruled Tango was an American pit bull. Under local council’s by-laws the dog is now deemed dangerous and needs to be put down.
To keep the animal safe the family had moved Tango to a kennel just south of Tweed Heads, New South Wales — 16 miles (27km) south of the Gold Coast — more than five years ago, where the dog could be registered as an American staffordshire terrier.
Tuesday’s court ruling could have wider ramifications for thousands of dog owners, who believed their American staffordshire terriers were a different breed and not subject to the same dangerous breed by-laws.