The pair's Mount Isa owner Louisa Wakefield said this was despite the "council not even laying eyes on them" to determine their risk to the public.
"There's been no conversation about why they have deemed 'dangerous'," Ms Wakefield said.
"Who are they (the council) to define that the dogs are a threat to the public for injuring a cat.
Everything with the council has been a forgone conclusion. They have no hunting instincts at all. Dogs chase cats, it's part of their relationship."
Ms Wakefield, said she had already paid a $500 fine for each dog for "allowing a dog to attack and cause harm to another animal or human" after they escaped from the Parkside yard while her sister was looking after the dogs last year.
"I accepted liability for the injury to the cat, I even said I'd pay the vet bills," she said.
[Notice she said she'd pay the vet bills... but did she? There's a difference between saying, "Oh, I'll pay the vet bills!" and actually forking over the hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars in vet bills.]
But now, the single mother of two who is also a full-time university student said she was being forced to pay an additional $500 application fee for each of the dogs because they have been labelled 'dangerous dogs'.
Last month, Ms Wakefield received a letter to inform her that her dogs may be seized if she didn't pay the application fee by May 25.
Ms Wakefield has attempted to arrange an instalment plan to pay the application fee, but it has been denied by council.
"I thought that if someone with a serious debt, came to them with a payment offer, that they couldn't refuse it if they made an offer to pay it," she said.
"I'm a single mother with two kids who is studying nursing full-time, I just can't come up with that sort of money."
Now, she is so fearful the council could seize and destroy her dogs, that she locks them inside the house whenever she leaves.
"I'm afraid they will come and take them and I'll never see them again," she said.
(North West Star - June 5, 2012)
