Lawyer Darrell Hart, acting for the council, called the postie and the animal control officer. Puru was self represented and called his brother Brock Puru to testify on his behalf.
The postie said a day before the attack, she went to Puru's home to deliver a parcel, but Paco lunged and snarled at her. No one was home so she returned the next day.
On March 23, she called out from the driveway before Paco "flew out" from the side of the garage and attacked her. She was bitten on the ring finger of her right hand and around the thumb of the other hand.
"As quickly as it bit me it went back," she said.
Her ring finger still would not bend and she required an X-ray and a tetanus shot after the attack.
Brock Puru admitted he let Paco off the leash that day and took him to the garage because he did not expect anyone on the property because it was raining. He admitted the attack was unprovoked. He insisted there was a gate on the property but the postie said she did not notice it.
Judge Colin Doherty ordered the dog's destruction and fined Puru $300 on each charge and $130 in court cost. Puru has been ordered to pay $150 of the $600 to the postie.
Puru said he did not feel his dog had to be killed and filed appeal papers in the High Court.