>Mark Meechan, 30, recorded his girlfriend's pug, Buddha, responding to statements such as "Sieg Heil" by raising its paw.
>The clip was viewed more than three million times on YouTube.
>Meechan, of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, was sentenced at Airdrie Sheriff Court after being found guilty of committing a hate crime last month.
>He had denied any wrong-doing and insisted he made the video, which was posted in April 2016, to annoy his girlfriend.
>But Sheriff Derek O'Carroll found him guilty of a charge under the Communications Act that he posted a video on social media and YouTube which was grossly offensive because it was "anti-Semitic and racist in nature" and was aggravated by religious prejudice.
Cases like these are an absolute waste of the police and prosecutor's time, in my American opinion.