A Pui O dog-owner responsible for multiple attacks, including two fatalities, says it’s unfair to blame her.

“It is impossible to avoid accidents,” said Ms Choi in an interview with Apple Daily. She said the number of incidents was small.

“It is unfair of other dog owners to put the blame all on a single person,” she said. “I am also a victim.”

Choi contacted the Apple Daily after it published an article on Saturday describing the repeated attacks by her pets on other dogs.

Two dogs have died and at least half a dozen others have been injured in attacks that go back at least six years. Choi’s dogs also frequently chase and attack local buffalo herds.

Choi, who describes herself as a dog lover, she says she has raised 17 dogs in ten years living in Pui O.

Okka Scherer, who runs a dog rescue home at Pui O, says her dog Siu San (photo above) died after being attacked by three dogs in her front garden in February – one of many attacks, including one in which her helper was bitten on the leg.

She incurred veterinary costs of HK$20,000 as a result of an attack on her dog Rayban last October.

After Choi paid just the first HK$8000, Scherer took her the Small Claims Tribunal and won, but Choi has still not settled the full amount.

The police and the AFCD have declined to take action against Choi. AFCD has ordered Choi to muzzle her dogs, but Scherer says she has never seen her dogs wearing a muzzle.

Another owner whose dog was attacked is Cecilie Gamst-Berg, whose pet was badly injured in 2015.

Gamst-Berg said after the attack Choi was “ordered to muzzle the dogs but never did. They never paid my vet bill (HK$2,000) and never said sorry.”

She said she had reported Choi and her dogs to the AFCD two years earlier – yet after the second attack the department claimed not to have had any previous complaints.

Apple Daily story said Choi is a well-known local antique collector with a property portfolio worth than HK$50 million.

The paper says Choi had declined to respond when initially contacted, but approached the journalist after publication of the two articles on Saturday.