A DOG lover has told a court her boyfriend trained her ‘lovely little’ dog to give Nazi salutes and respond to videos of Adolf Hitler.

Suzanne Kelly, 29, said he had recorded the pug responding to statements such as ‘gas the Jews’ and ‘Sieg Heil’ and uploaded the video on YouTube — where it has been viewed more than 3million times.

Following complaints, police arrested Mark Meechan for allegedly committing a hate crime in April last year.

The 29-year-old, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, has insisted he only did it to annoy Kelly and in another video he apologised for any offence caused.

Giving evidence at Airdrie sheriff court, Ms Kelly said: ‘I was just annoyed that he had made my dog look like something evil.

‘I didn’t think it would have the effect that it did. Mark has been unable to work because of it. I did not want anyone to be offended. He made my cute wee dog look like a monster, Nazis are monsters.’ In the clip the pug, Buddha, appears to lift its paw to the Sieg Heil command.

Under questioning, Ms Kelly said Meechan was not a racist and had never expressed any anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic views.

The court earlier heard Ephraim Borowski, 66, director of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, label the video ‘grossly offensive’. He said he had lost members of his own family to the Nazis. The group’s website was bombarded with abusive comments after the video emerged, he added.

Prosecutors allege Meechan communicated material that would stir up hatred on religious grounds.

Meechan, who denies wrong doing, faces an alternative charge of posting an anti-Semitic video aggravated by religious prejudice. The trial was adjourned until November.