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Brittany Prue shook her head in shame on Monday in an Ottawa courtroom as video showed her repeatedly kicking her puppies, Rick and Morty, in the head in the hallway of her Lees Avenue apartment building on May 13, 2018.

Prue, 26, started kicking the puppies after one of them urinated in the hallway outside the elevator.

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Brindle pit bulls Rick and Morty, both male, were four and 10 months old at the time. The vicious attack on the leashed puppies was captured on the building’s security video.

Prue was also seen yanking one of the puppies by his leash so hard that all of his legs were airborne as his small frame was whipped across the hallway.

Prue pleaded guilty early on to wilfully causing unnecessary pain, suffering, or injury to Rick and Morty. She was granted a conditional discharge by Ontario Court Justice Norman Boxall during sentencing at the Elgin Street courthouse on Monday.

Rick and Morty will be moved at the end of August to her former boyfriend’s place, which is larger. The judge said he understood the challenges of having dogs in an urban setting and said a bigger place would be better for Rick and Morty, named after the title characters of the popular U.S. adult sitcom.