Dog attack family in fight to keep home

Thursday 18th January 2007, 12:00AM GMT.

A DEVASTATED family may lose their home after their dog killed their next-door-neighbour’s kitten.

Mother-of-three Debbie Hepburn – who lives with her children and two dogs at Les Cinq Chênes estate – had her eviction case adjourned yesterday but says that she has no idea what her family will do if the Housing Department insist that they leave. She feels that she is being ‘made an example of’ by the department after Leo, a ten-year-old Collie, escaped into their neighbour’s garden while they were out and attacked a cat.

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