A yellow Labrador retriever faces a death sentence by the mayor of an eastern Missouri town who says the pup allegedly chomped on a 7-year-old girl, but the dog’s owners say experts can prove it wasn’t him.
The fate of the dog, named Phineas, has turned into a legal tussle that has delayed his death. Salem mayor Gary Brown called for the pooch to be killed in July 2012 after the girl was bitten on the abdomen during a visit to a friend’s house where Phineas lived, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
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