The dog had already attacked one person and went on to attack staff at a kennel after police confiscated it
- said Antony Farrell, prosecuting at York Magistrates' Court.
It was confined within a cage when the woman visited her friend Jill Bellhouse in Dijon Avenue in Acomb.
But Bellhouse let it out and the dog bit the woman’s leg so hard the bone was exposed.
Bellhouse, 52, of Dijon Avenue, Acomb, pleaded guilty to being in charge of a dog that injured a person when it was dangerously out of control.
She will learn her sentence on October 31 at York Crown Court.
Mr Farrell said police officers described the dog as similar to an American XL bully - but smaller.
On December 6, Bellhouse was “under the influence of a drug. As a result, what then happened was she went to open the dog’s cage,” said Mr Farrell.
“She was told by (the victim) ‘you shouldn’t open it. You know it has already attacked someone before’.”
But Bellhouse opened the cage and the dog bit the woman.
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