Farrah-Leigh Nichol, five, had gone to stroke the Pocket Bully (pictured) after asking permission from the owner at around 6.30pm on Saturday near a Nisa store in Teesside.
Alex Nichol, 30, stamped on a Pocket Bully after it bit a chunk out of five-year-old daughter Farrah-Leigh's face as they went to a Nisa shop near their home in Stockton-on-Tees