Comments on: Dogs Trust Issues Statement on Death of Police Dogs in Nottinghamshire http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/3038/dogs-trust-issues-statement-on-death-of-police-dogs-in-nottinghamshire/ the lifestyle magazine for dog lovers Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:23:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andrew Meads http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/3038/dogs-trust-issues-statement-on-death-of-police-dogs-in-nottinghamshire/#comment-46598 Andrew Meads Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:56:19 +0000 http://www.dogmagazine.net/?p=3038#comment-46598 There is no excuse for the totally avoidable horrendous deaths of the two GSD Police dogs that died as a direct result of being left shut in a Police vehicle outside Nottingham Police Station on tuesday. It is all very well for the Police and public to lay floral tributes for the dogs and deem it a sad acident but surely this incident needs to be addressed fully and as both the rspca and Police force have been advising people that it is against the law to leave a dog shut up in a vehicle therer must be just cause for a prosecution. The rspca Animal welfare 2006 has written under the new legislation that it is an offence to cause unnecessary suffering to any animal with a maximum penalty of a £20,000 fine and or six months imprisonment. A comment made by an rspca spokesman "I am sure this isn't the first incident and it won't be the last," seems to attempt to defuse the severity of this horrendous incident but it is the suffering that these poor animals must have endured that must see an example made of those found responsible so incidents like these DO NOT HAPPEN AGAIN. Andrew Meads Safewings Wildlife Conservation Projects Isham Northants NN14 1HP Tel; 01536 726113 There is no excuse for the totally avoidable horrendous deaths of the two GSD Police dogs that died as a direct result of being left shut in a Police vehicle outside Nottingham Police Station on tuesday.
It is all very well for the Police and public to lay floral tributes for the dogs and deem it a sad acident but surely this incident needs to be addressed fully and as both the rspca and Police force have been advising people that it is against the law to leave a dog shut up in a vehicle therer must be just cause for a prosecution.
The rspca Animal welfare 2006 has written under the new legislation that it is an offence to cause unnecessary suffering to any animal with a maximum penalty of a £20,000 fine and or six months imprisonment.
A comment made by an rspca spokesman “I am sure this isn’t the first incident and it won’t be the last,” seems to attempt to defuse the severity of this horrendous incident but it is the suffering that these poor animals must have endured that must see an example made of those found responsible so incidents like these DO NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.

Andrew Meads
Safewings Wildlife Conservation Projects
Isham
Northants
NN14 1HP
Tel; 01536 726113

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