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Dog Warden Seminar Hailed a Huge Success
Posted By Neil Burton Date: 30/10 Posted Under: Animal Welfare, Social IssuesBy Neil Burton. All rights reserved.
Over 200 hundred delegates attended both days of the National Dog Warden Association 24th annual seminar held in Birmingham on the 25th & 26th October 2007.
Day one was dedicated to animal welfare and dog control. Speakers from local authorities, government departments and the police gave presentations on health [...]
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Dangerous Dogs and Dangerous Reporting
Posted By Neil Burton Date: 1/10 Posted Under: Canine Columns, Dangerous Dogs, Pet Industry, Social IssuesWritten by Cuthbert Jackson of the National Dog Warden Association. All rights reserved.
When publications report on the facts fairly and accurately they allow their readers to develop an informed opinion. It is sad to find that some writers in the canine press have now adopted the same style found in the mass media when they [...]
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NDWA Calls For Investigation into DNA Claims
Posted By Neil Burton Date: 20/09 Posted Under: Pet Health, Pet IndustryWords By Sue Bell, President National Dog Warden Association
It has been suggested that the contention around ‘breed specific’ legislation is soon to be resolved. Instead of the dog’s ‘type’ being decided in the light of subjective opinions of prosecution and defence it will become a matter of scientific fact as DNA testing for ‘breed’ [...]
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Dangerous Dogs Debate Attracts Huge Interest
Posted By Neil Burton Date: 13/09 Posted Under: Animal Welfare, Breed Specific Legislation, Dangerous Dogs, Social IssuesThe National Dog Warden Association has had to suspend bookings for the forthcoming two day seminar on dangerous dogs and dog control scheduled for the 25th & 26th October 2007 in Birmingham.
President Sue Bell said that she had taken the unprecedented step due to the exceptional demand for delegate places, ‘in all the years of [...]
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Dog Warden Arrest, NDWA Urge Caution
Posted By Neil Burton Date: 4/09 Posted Under: Animal Welfare, Dog Newswritten by Neil Burton (all rights reserved)
I recently wrote an article in defence of Dog Wardens after well known Our Dogs columnist Robert Killick wrote about ’dog catchers nicking your dog’ when they were actually operating in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 when seizing stray dogs.
Sadly it appears that in Wales a Dog [...]
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