Posted Fri Jun 5, 2009 7:47am AEST
A dachshund bitch kept by the husband of Denmark's Queen Margrethe has savaged a royal guard and is now at the centre of calls for it to be put down.
Eleven-year-old Evita should be "euthanised," the opposition's animal welfare spokesman Bjarne Laustsen said, deriding the "paradox that a royal guard is bitten by a dog belonging to those he is employed to protect."
"If my dog had been so aggressive, I'd have had it put down," he added.
"There is no difference between a royal dog and any other," he said.
Prince Consort Henrik's dachshund left the soldier needing hospital treatment for a leg wound last Saturday at the royal family's summer castle in Fredensborg, according to the Ekstra Bladet tabloid.
It was the second such attack, after a May 2008 attack that left another royal guard needing three weeks off work.
Fellow opposition deputy Marlene Harpsoee echoed Mr Laustsen's call, with Karina Lorentzen Dehnhardt of the far-right PPD, which supports the government in parliament, also saying a muzzle must be fixed, or else.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/05/2589981.htm
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