Two golden retriever dogs mauled a goat and its kid to death in a pen within the National Trust for Scotland’s Culloden Battlefield visitor centre.
But as the pair attacked a third, an onlooker grabbed a stick and scared them off.
However, the animal required veterinary treatment to bites to its leg and neck costing £136.
Yesterday at Inverness Sheriff Court, 80-year-old dog owner Pamela Beveridge of Edgewood, Nairnside, was ordered by Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald to reimburse the cost to the National Trust.
Beveridge, who was close to tears as she stood in the dock, said she would, adding: “I offered the management to pay the vet’s bill and buy replacement goats, but I never heard anything back from them.”
Her voice choking with emotion, Beveridge added: “I have got rid of the older dog. I had to guarantee it would not happen again. I still have the younger one.”
She admitted being the owner of the two dogs which caused the death of two goats on March 21 this year, contravening the “Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act.
Fiscal depute Anna Chisholm said onlookers saw the retrievers chasing the goats which were “frantically running around.”
“Two goat carcases of an adult and its kid were near the gate. The dogs grabbed another goat, one at each end, and they were pulling at it.”