>> Judge Judy: Ms. Pinto, it is
your claim that Ms. Gillings'
dogs attacked yours?
You want your vet bills paid.
>> Yes, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: It was a serious
vet bill because --
over several-thousand dollars.
Would you tell me
when this happened?
>> It happened Labor Day
Weekend -- September 2, 2017.
It was on a Saturday.
>> Judge Judy: What time of the
day?
>> It was 11:30,
11:45 in the morning.
>> Judge Judy: What kind of dog
do you have?
>> I have a mixed breed --
a shepherd-lab.
>> Judge Judy: How big?
>> Jill, at the time of
the attack, was about 62 pounds.
>> Judge Judy: And how long have
you had her?
>> I've had Jill since 2007.
>> Judge Judy: And what kind of
dogs do you have, Ms. Gillings?
>> I have pit bulls
and bullmastiff mixed.
>> Judge Judy: How long have you
had them?
>> For three years.
I got them as puppies.
>> Judge Judy: How much
do they weigh?
>> Zeus is about 130 pounds,
and Poseidon is 90 pounds.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
Would you go over and show me
what happened, please, on the
2nd of September?
>> Yes, Your Honor, be glad to.
Jill and I were
on our weekend walk.
We walk the same route
every Saturday.
We were coming back
from our walk.
We live two blocks that
direction, proceeding this way.
Ms. Gillings and two of her dogs
proceeding this way.
>> Judge Judy: On the other side
of the street?
>> The other side
of the street, yes.
>> Judge Judy: Yes.
>> At some point, Ms. Gillings
called to me,
"Don't worry. I've got them."
Okay.
Jill and I proceed to walk
a little further.
>> Judge Judy: But are still on
the opposite side of the street.
>> Opposite side of the street,
yes.
Yes, Your Honor.
As we're walking,
making our way home,
"Don't worry. I got them."
Somehow or other, I didn't have
a good feeling.
She did not got them.
They immediately ran
to our side of the street,
dragging Ms. Gillings with them.
>> Judge Judy: She was holding
onto the leashes?
>> She was holding onto them.
>> Judge Judy: Trying to stop?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
And what happened next?
>> Next, they proceeded
to mount Jill.
Bigger fellow turned her
over on her back,
ripping chest open.
Younger fellow, smaller fellow,
into the head and into the neck.
Unable to assist, I did try.
I tried to push the older fellow
away, and bit my finger
immediately, pulled the finger
back.
Just -- I carried on,
just, "Please stop."
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
>> Thank you.
>> Judge Judy: Want to go over
there and tell me your version
of the events?
>> Sure, absolutely.
>> Judge Judy: Mm-hmm.
>> I was on the same side
as Mrs. Pinto with my dogs.
>> Judge Judy: Mnh-mnh!
>> I --
>> Judge Judy: You're gonna have
to listen to me.
I want to tell you -- I'm not
buying that you were walking
on the same side of the street,
so I would rethink that.
>> Yes, I was -- Sorry.
>> Judge Judy: I would rethink
it.
>> I was walking on
the same side with Mrs. Pinto.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
>> I was walking towards her,
and I said to her,
"Is your dog friendly?"
And I said to her that my dogs
are friendly, and I asked her,
"Is your dog friendly?"
She said, yes, they were.
So, yes...
>> No!
>> ...that the dog was.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Just a second.
>> So I walked --
>> I'm sorry.
>> I was just proceeding to walk
my dogs towards her,
and I was talking
to her the entire time.
Usually, when I walk my dogs,
I always ask,
"Are you afraid of dogs?"
>> Judge Judy: I don't care
what -- Listen to me.
>> ...I say, "Is your dog
friendly?
My dogs are friendly."
>> Judge Judy: Ms. Gillings.
>> I always establish that.
>> Judge Judy: Ms. Gillings.
Go back.
Now you can tell me, because
we're starting off with a place
that I'm not believing that you
were on the same side of the
street.
>> Okay.
I was on the same side
of the street with her.
>> Judge Judy: I'm telling you.
And I'm telling you why --
>> But you weren't there.
>> Judge Judy: Of course
I wasn't there.
If I was there, I'd have to
recuse myself.
>> Of course.
[ Laughter ]
>> Judge Judy: Because whether
your dogs were uninjured --
>> They were injured.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
You have vet bills
for your dogs?
>> No, I do not.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
Your dogs were uninjured.
>> They were injured.
>> Judge Judy: And what I'm
telling you is, when somebody
has a dog for 10 years and that
dog is injured as seriously
as her dog was injured,
she doesn't have to make up
a story that your dogs were
on the other side of the street.
If your two dogs passed her
on the same side of the street,
and her 60-pound dog
was injured by your 200 pounds'
worth of dog -- 130 and 90 --
she doesn't have to
make up a story that they were
on the other side of the street.
She would have been successful
if she told me
that they were attacked
on the same side of the street!
>> Okay, well, they were on the
same side of the street.
>> Judge Judy: And I'm
telling you I don't believe it.