You cannot criticise Ryan O’Meara if Iranian journalists are filing articles that point out the extreme anti-dog measures of the Iranian Government such as taking dogs off people when they are walking them in the street? On the other hand the President of Iran has four security dogs to guard him but gets special dispensation from several religious leaders, where is the fairness and democratic approach in that? I may be totally niave about this but I always thought that ‘Republic’s’ were for the people but then again like most countries around the world of whatever religious and political creed there is always the ‘do as I say, not as I do’ attitude of the ruling classes and establishment figures. Luckily things are not this bad for dog owners in the UK…..yet!

which were supplied by journalists from inside Iran, which paint a non too positive picture of the country’s attitude to dogs.

So don’t promote bigtory against Iranians if you don’t know what the heck you’re talking about.