Watch what the judge is going to do (Video)

We love people who stand up for our four-legged companions, and when they’re able to serve up some real justice, it’s even sweeter. Pet advocates everywhere admire Judge Cicconetti, the judge who dishes out creative sentences to animal abusers. As it turns out, the famous Judge Judy also has a soft spot for our furry friends. In a recent custody battle over a curly-haired canine, two families each claimed that the pup was theirs.

The defendant, a woman, claimed she had bought the dog for her mother from someone who was selling him on the street for $50 and brought with her some veterinary records she said proved the dog was hers. But the man claimed he had been Baby Boy’s owner before then and the dog had been taken from him and sold without his knowledge. This may have been Judy’s toughest case yet. How do you even decide which home to send a pupper to? Both sides presented their arguments, and as it so happened, the mother-daughter defendants had brought the dog in question to the courthouse.

Dogs can’t lie

As any pet owner will attest, their unconditional love and loyalty is something that cannot be matched or explained. Even the notoriously stern Judge Judy knows this to be true. Judge Judy decided that the best way to find out the truth was to ask the most honest one involved in this case: the dog, Baby Boy! When one of the defendants carried him into the courtroom, the ruling became perfectly clear. Watch the dog’s heartwarming reaction in the video.