Northampton family disqualified from owning a dog for five years
Date of alert:
Thursday, 3 March 2022
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Northamptonshire Police
A Northampton father and son who shot their Staffordshire Bull Terrier twice in the head with a nail gun have been disqualified from owning a dog for five years.
Chayne Robert Mason, aged 47, and 20-year-old Tyler Mason, both pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, namely their Staffordshire Bull Terrier - Buddy.
The pair appeared before Northampton Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, February 22, along with Tyler’s mother, 50-year-old Tracy Ann Welsh, following the incident at an address in Harborough Road, Northampton.
On November 11 last year, Chayne Mason of Gloucester Crescent, Northampton, and his son Tyler Mason, of Harborough Road, took four-year-old Buddy outside and each shot him in the head using the nail gun.
Believing Buddy was dead, the men left him outside. However, the next day they discovered he had survived the horrific assault, and removed one of the nails from his head, causing it to bleed.
