THE behaviour of a Canworthy Water man was described as "quite bizarre" by Judge Nicholas Vincent, at Truro Crown Court.
In a drunken state, Richard Hasell stabbed his friend's puppy 12 times and then drove home and stabbed his brother as he lay in bed.
Richard Hasell, aged 22, of Canworthy Water, Launceston, was given a three-year jail sentence on Wednesday and also banned from driving for three years.
He had pleaded guilty at a hearing at Truro Crown Court in March to having unlawfully wounded William Hasell with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, criminal damage to Paddy, the Staffordshire Bull pup, failing to provide a specimen for analysis and causing unnecessary suffering to the animal. His denial of attempted murder was accepted by the Crown.
Prosecutor Llewellyn Sellick said that Hasell had seriously injured Paddy with a kitchen knife and a vet's bill amounted to £900.
Brian Godwin, landlord of the Old Wainhouse Inn, found the animal cowering in his son Christopher's home. It was covered in blood from several deep gashes.
Hasell then took the knife and drove to his home and was ranting and raving when he entered his brother's bedroom. He told him: "I will f...... kill you" and pointed the knife at his brother, who was cut on the fingers when he held out his hand.
Hasell repeated: "I am going to kill you, I have had enough, everyone is p...... me off" and to his parents he said: "I have killed Chris's dog, I have killed Will and now I am going to kill you."
His father wrestled the knife from him during a struggle while his mother rang for an ambulance and the police.
Hasell drove off and when arrested in a lay-by on the A 39 at Otterham Station asked the officers: "How is my brother?"
William had suffered two wounds to his neck and others to his shoulder and knee which paramedics said were life changing as opposed to life threatening.
He was flown by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital.
Interviewed, Hasell claimed that the dog had been jumping up and trying to bite him, and he had been wound up even more when he found his brother in his bedroom.
Hasell said he had drunk ten pints and smoked about six cannabis joints but did not think he had taken magic mushrooms, as he had suggested earlier.
He had not tried to kill his brother but agreed the injuries he had inflicted were horrendous.
"I love my brother and didn't mean to hurt him," he declared.
Mr Sellick said that a back calculation of Hasell's blood sample indicated that at the time he had been up to four and a half times over the drink drive limit, but the forensic scientist found no trace of drugs.
Hasell, he added, had convictions for drink driving in June, 2005, and February, 2006.
John Fletcher, defending, said there was no excuse for Hasell's behaviour and his remorse was genuine. His brother had been off work for a few weeks and was permanently scarred.
Judge Vincent accepted that Hasell, who had seriously abused alcohol that night, was "racked with remorse."