Reggie the boxer cross breed struck in Kintyre Avenue last August, pouncing on the helpless woman and attacking her and her beloved shih tzu.

The predatory pooch was seized by cops probing the attack and it was held, under lock and key at Paisley’s Mill Street Police Office.

But this week Sheriff Tom McCartney ruled that a more severe punishment was needed and called for the dog to be put down after Paisley Sheriff Court heard how both the woman and her dog were left injured by the attack.

He made a destruction order, which will see the dog put to sleep, while its owner, Elizabeth McLaughlin (pictured), got off relatively lightly.

Paisley Sheriff Court had heard McLaughlin, 32, tried to get the five-year-old dog to come inside her home around 8.40pm on Sunday, August 25.

But the animal would not budge and McLaughlin shut the door, leaving it outside and unattended.

Hazel Emmerson, prosecuting, told the court the victim picked up her own dog, fearing for her safety.

Her fears proved to be well-founded as the boxer cross ran towards the woman, who we have chosen not to name, and began barking and stamping at her.

She began shouting and screaming for help, which prompted three good Samaritans to try to help her.

But before they could rush to her aid, the boxer-cross leapt up and bit the woman on the face, knocking her to the ground.

She shielded her own dog from the boxer cross and received bites on her left arm and right hand and scratches on her chest and upper right arm in the struggle.

But her attempts to save her own dog from attack proved fruitless, as the boxer-cross managed to bite the shih tzu, leaving the dog hurt.

Both the woman and her dog had to receive treatment for their injuries.

Two of the three people who had rushed to the woman’s aid managed to pull the boxer cross off her.

Emmerson said McLaughlin had come out of her house and stood and watched the dog attack the woman and her pet and had then taken it inside once the attack was over.

But, speaking from the dock, McLaughlin denied this, saying: “I never seen the actual attack, I couldn’t see it from where I was standing.” The court heard the police and ambulance were called and the woman was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.

Nine sutures were applied to the wound on her left forearm, two were used on the wound on her face and the injury to her hand was cleaned and dressed.

The shih tzu was also treated and had to be kept in overnight as it was suffering from shock.

McLaughlin was said to have been drunk at the time and “seemed not to care about what her dog had done or what had happened to the victim”.

McLaughlin admitted breaking the dangerous dogs act by being the owner of a dog that was dangerously out of control.

At an earlier court hearing Sheriff Tom Ward warned McLaughlin that Reggie could be put to sleep.

He said: “Your dog could be destroyed.

“It seems to me you can’t take care of it and it’s a danger to the public.” And his warning proved true this week when Sheriff McCartney issued the call to have the creature destroyed.

McLaughlin with also handed a £250 fine. She was further banned from keeping dogs for a year and has to pay £90 in compensation to her victim.