Comments on: New Crackdown On ‘Dangerous Dogs’ Planned - Does DEFRA Have a Clue What it is Doing? http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/424/new-crackdown-on-dangerous-dogs-planned-does-defra-have-a-clue-what-it-is-doing/ by K9 Magazine, the lifestyle magazine for dog lovers Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:13:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ordinary Dog Owner http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/424/new-crackdown-on-dangerous-dogs-planned-does-defra-have-a-clue-what-it-is-doing/#comment-5621 Ordinary Dog Owner Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:30:44 +0000 http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/424/new-crackdown-on-dangerous-dogs-planned-does-defra-have-a-clue-what-it-is-doing/#comment-5621 Alison, lets hope that there are still some dog wardens employed by councils in 12 months time or the whole skill base for dog handling and enforcement work will be lost when they realise that you do need dog control for the benefit of people and dogs! DEFRA should be renamed the Ministry of Misinformation or the Department For the Eradication of Reasonable Attitudes towards dog control? Alison, lets hope that there are still some dog wardens employed by councils in 12 months time or the whole skill base for dog handling and enforcement work will be lost when they realise that you do need dog control for the benefit of people and dogs! DEFRA should be renamed the Ministry of Misinformation or the Department For the Eradication of Reasonable Attitudes towards dog control?

]]> By: Alison Green http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/424/new-crackdown-on-dangerous-dogs-planned-does-defra-have-a-clue-what-it-is-doing/#comment-5612 Alison Green Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:43:39 +0000 http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/424/new-crackdown-on-dangerous-dogs-planned-does-defra-have-a-clue-what-it-is-doing/#comment-5612 ‘there is no need for further legislation or registration schemes, but that existing legislation requires vigorous enforcement by the police and they have been ordered to protect the public from dog attacks’. This sounds like a classic case of "pass the buck" to imply the Police have failed to follow a law and failed to protect the public! Im sure the police officers and others having to apply this law will remember these words! Wake up Mr Rooker. The law cannot protect the public because it is a flawed piece of legislation. To state "crack down" on "dangerous dogs" is nothing more than words that cannot be properly actioned unless the legislation we have is changed to prevent dangerous owners obtaining a dog of any type BEFORE they get one. In another 12 months time we will be in exactly the same situation. I only hope that someone doesnt pay the ultimate price of this countries failure to aknowledge a past mistake. ‘there is no need for further legislation or registration schemes, but that existing legislation requires vigorous enforcement by the police and they have been ordered to protect the public from dog attacks’.

This sounds like a classic case of “pass the buck” to imply the Police have failed to follow a law and failed to protect the public! Im sure the police officers and others having to apply this law will remember these words!

Wake up Mr Rooker. The law cannot protect the public because it is a flawed piece of legislation. To state “crack down” on “dangerous dogs” is nothing more than words that cannot be properly actioned unless the legislation we have is changed to prevent dangerous owners obtaining a dog of any type BEFORE they get one.

In another 12 months time we will be in exactly the same situation. I only hope that someone doesnt pay the ultimate price of this countries failure to aknowledge a past mistake.

]]> By: Dave the Dog http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/424/new-crackdown-on-dangerous-dogs-planned-does-defra-have-a-clue-what-it-is-doing/#comment-5602 Dave the Dog Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:16:34 +0000 http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/424/new-crackdown-on-dangerous-dogs-planned-does-defra-have-a-clue-what-it-is-doing/#comment-5602 Neil The Mandarins and their drones at The DEFRA rather remind me of the Imperial General Staff of WW1. To far away from the front line with little or no understanding of what is happening, what is required or what effects their decisions are having. We are just the PBI. Neil
The Mandarins and their drones at The DEFRA rather remind me of the Imperial General Staff of WW1. To far away from the front line with little or no understanding of what is happening, what is required or what effects their decisions are having. We are just the PBI.

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