Following Paris Hilton’s conviction her pet chihuahua will be jailed for 45 days too. Tinkerbell Hilton was spared the death penalty after she was caught defecating on the front lawn of Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer’s House, the same Judge that sentenced her owner a few days beforehand.

The dog’s lawyer and President of the American Association of Accessory Dogs (AAAD) was very critical of sentence and accused the legal system of wanting to make an example of Tinkerbell. The prosecution was disappointed that the dog was spared capital punishment.

Tinkerbell was apprehended after having excreted faeces described by the police as ‘wet, full of bits and VERY stinky – the worst kind of fouling a dog can do – and a extraordinary amount given the her limited size’. A witness to the scene testified that Tinkerbell had ‘laid a mine’ by walking suspiciously towards the lawn, looking around before finding a spot on the path to the front door and running away as soon as the excrement was delivered. There were no reports of anyone stepping on it.

This is not the first time Tinkerbell has been in trouble. In 2005 she attacked one of the producers of the Today Show whilst Paris was being interviewed (see femalefirst.co.uk – Paris Hilton’s dog attacks). The producer allegedly required first aid treatment.

This event was described by the prosecution as ‘proof that Tinkerbell is a bad, bad, bad doggy’. The defence argued that Tinkerbell had been under a lot of pressure and cited two incidents: the time she went missing for a week in 2004 (see CBS News – Tinkerbell Hilton Tells No Tales) and reports in 2005 that Paris wanted to trade her for a younger, slimmer and more fashionable Chihuahua (see MSN – Paris Says Adios to Tinkerbell). In the same year Paris was voted Worst Dog Owner by New York Dog Magazine and The Hollywood Dog Magazine (see Yahoo News – Hilton Named Worst Celebrity Dog Owner).

Paris and Tinkerbell’s jail terms will start and end at the same time but at different correctional facilities. Tinkerbell will ‘do time’ at Beverly Hills State Correctional Facility for Bad Doggies.

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