SIR: I refer to the story of Bolton magistrates wanting to have a dog put down for biting another dog, accidentally I understand .It amazes me how they come to this result when I have just read in the paper of a so called human being biting a man's nose off in a pub. This is happening every night not once, but I haven't heard of anyone being put down!

My husband was a postman for many years, but they never put a dog down that bit him, which was more than once.

Please let them have a bit of compassion for an animal which can't speak out for itself.

Troubled

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