Innocent until proven guilty, that’s the British way – unless you’re a dog that is.

I’ll stop with the anthropomorphism right there, I know it’s not fair or right to compare dogs and people. But even still, it is people who have chosen to impose a guilty until proven innocent status on dogs of a certain ‘type’.

This week I read that Police dogs and their handlers in the Dyfed Powys police force have a swish new £225,000 home.

Nice. Seriously,  I think it’s great that these highly valuable and exceptional animals and their handlers are given the facillities they need to perform the fantastic work they do.

But the news comes to me in a week where I’ve heard yet more stories of dogs being kept in police detention under the flawed 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act, dogs who have done nothing more than share some physical characteristics with the outlawed pit bull terrier type dog, are being forced to live in complete abject misery.

These are dogs who are taken from their owners and locked up. These are dogs that are charged with a crime of looking a certain way but they themselves have no idea what it is they’ve done wrong.

These are dogs which, whether found ‘guilty’ or innocent will often be returned to their owners with their personalities completely changed. Dogs that can often become a shadow of their former selves. Dogs that, I must reiterate, have done absolutely nothing wrong whatsoever.

Once a dog has been seized, surely the very, very minimum an owner can expect is to be looked after and cared for to the very highest standards? But the sad fact remains that many dogs HAVE died in police care. Dogs that never even lived long enough for their owners to argue their case.

So, whilst it is genuinely nice to hear that police dogs have now got a great new place to live and work, please spare a thought for all the dogs currently living in conditions which are having a terrible effect on the dog’s mind and – in some cases – body.

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