LIVERMORE – A woman whose goats were attacked by a neighbor’s dogs was issued a restraining order against a third dog and its owner, a man who has been charged on several occasions after his dogs attacked other domestic animals.

“I’m so excited,” Tammy Sanborn said Thursday. “When the judge issued the order my eyes welled up. I almost started to cry. This is the first judge to take a step against Peter’s dogs … It’s one dog I feel my kids will be safer from.”

However, Peter Drown Jr., 40, of Livermore, called the order illegal Thursday and plans to appeal.

“It’s an illegal document,” Drown said. “My dog, Kira, has never been at Tammy Sanborn’s house … It’s all lies.”

The order requires that the pit bull be confined and restricted to Drown’s property. Kira must wear a muzzle when taken off the property. Drown is challenging the order because it was two other dogs he owned, Junior and Nova, that attacked Sanborn’s goats in November, killing two of them. Sanborn later shot and killed the dogs after she found them in her barn on Botka Hill Road.

In a separate matter, Drown pleaded not guilty Wednesday in district court in Lewiston to a charge of being an owner or keeper of a dangerous dog. That charge stemmed from a Jan. 12 incident in which Kira was accused of biting a woman on the leg when she went to Drown’s home at 137 Goding Road.

Drown said he refused a deal Wednesday by the district attorney’s office of a $250 fine and to euthanize 2-year-old Kira. Drown plans to go to trial July 23 in that incident.

“They wanted me to have my dog (put) down,” Drown said. “That’s ridiculous.”

He said the 25-pound dog was protecting her puppies and the woman who said she was bitten was trespassing since she was not invited to his home.

Drown said the judge Wednesday should not have considered Sanborn’s request for a restraining order because that incident is separate from the woman who was bit Jan. 12. A court hearing in Sanborn’s case is scheduled for April 24.

Drown had pleaded not guilty Jan. 10 to charges that two of his dogs killed two of Sanborn’s goats and injured nine others.

January’s dog bite incident was the fourth time in nearly a year that Drown faced charges linked to his dogs. He paid more than $700 in fines and charges in 2006 for attacks on neighbors’ animals and poultry.