Would You Let The Bailiff Take Your Dog
Posted By Sean O'Meara Date: 12/10 Posted Under: Dog NewsCan The Bailiff Repossess Your Dog?
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By Neil Burton, National Dog Wardens Association
A draft Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill that is being looked at by the government will entitle enforcement agents (Bailiffs) to break into private dwellings using a warrant, use force against occupiers, invite third parties on to premises (unqualified helpers to carry away goods) and seize money or goods found on premises, including pets.
What dog owner or for that matter any pet owner would willingly let a Bailiff take their dog or pets away from them, may be this is why this bill allows Bailiffs to use force against occupiers!
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Are they crazy? These are living creatures not objects!!! Have they stopped to think how this will affect the animal? Some animals only take to a selected few people. What are they gonna do when an animal flips out on them because they took it away from their family? I see a lot of law suits out of this!!! Just try to take one of my kids and see what happens!!!
This is the one thing that I fear the most. A Bailiff taking my beloved dogs. I think, if I knew there were grounds to suspect this might happen, I’d rather have them put down - but for sure, I’d make sure they’d disappeared well ahead of anybody breaking into my property. Dogs are living beings and no way is it their fault their owner has become a debtor.
This Government has to go.
Here in Ontario Canada, peace officers (which include police, animal control or deputized bystanders) may enter a building, including a private residence, without a warrant and seize a dog of any breed using whatever force they deem necessary whether the owner is present or not.
The justification is that a peace officers ‘has a belief’ that a dog is ‘menacing’ or ‘threatening’ a domestic animal or human inside the building or has displayed ‘menacing’ behaviour in the past
‘Menacing’ is undefined. Great opportunity for nasty neighbours to put people through, eh?
A dog can be seized on the street if a peace officer ‘believes’ that the dog is a ‘pit bull’ and that the owner ‘may have failed to abide by regulations’ at any time. In other words, they don’t have to catch you, just have to ‘believe’ that you may have done something in the past.
It’s all part of our wonderful ‘pit bull’ ban delivered by those madcap ‘Liberals’.
Sorry for the late comment, just found out about this great blog yesterday.