A dog that ate its dead owner could be set to return to the streets due to protests from animal rights campaigners - despite the fact that the man's family want the animal to be put down, reports Hannah Al-Othman for Mailonline.
Staffordshire bull terrier Butch, 10, was discovered feeding on his owner's corpse at a house in Waterloo, Liverpool, in September 2014 after an estimated four days without food and water.
Merseyside Police said the "highly agitated" staffie was aggressive to officers who attended the scene and seized the canine after the incident.
The force was granted an order to destroy the dog last year - which police said Butch's owner's family were supportive of.
But animal campaigners battling the ruling have now won the right for it to be reviewed - and claim Butch eating his owner was simply "what was natural" as the dog had been deprived of food for so long.