Shocking footage shows an owner grabbing his Staffordshire bull terrier before hurling him over a gate - and onto concrete.
Kieran O’Connor, 35, has been banned from keeping pets for five years after leaving pet Prince “exposed to acute pain”.
CCTV shows self-employed gardener O’Connor, from Liverpool, launching the elderly dog from the pavement instead of opening the gate so he could walk in.
Prince can be seen in the footage falling on his side and stumbling up as O'Connor lets himself into the garden through the gate.
Liverpool & Knowsley Magistrates’ Court was told the RSPCA investigated the case after a worried member of the public forwarded the clip on.
At sentencing on July 2 he was also given a community order which involves 26 programme requirement days and ordered to pay costs of £500 and a victim surcharge of £114.
