A BULLY owner was convicted in court after his dog left a girl of four with a hole in her head.
Thomas McStay, 46, looked on as his crazed pet Poppy savaged the terrified child.
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Glasgow Sheriff Court heard the mutt escaped from its usual spot at his home in the city’s Royston and ran towards her.
It sank its jaws into the girl’s hair and shook her while her desperate dad tried to intervene during a garden barbecue bash.
The parent, 30, said: “It pounced on my daughter.
“She was on her back.
“The dog had a full clump of hair in its mouth and was shaking about aggressively.
“Everyone was screaming to get Poppy off of her.”
The dad added: “I lifted the dog up and threw it down to the bottom of the garden.
“I lifted my daughter up and the dog came back, barking.
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“I noticed the blood gushing from the back of her head.
“She had a swimming costume on and everything was red with blood.”
Prosecutor Hazel Kerr asked him what McStay was doing during the attack.
He said: “I was trying to get the dog off and he was just standing there.
The child was taken to A&E, where the dad saw her wound.
He said: “It looked like a hole and indentation on her head.”
McStay was found guilty of having a “dangerously out of control” pocket American Bully in July 2022.
Sheriff Andrew Cubie will sentence him in April.
