Friday 20 April 2012

Worrying Signs...

London Councils is calling on the government to increase the penalty for owning a banned type dog to bring it more in line with carrying an offensive weapon.

They are also calling for enforcement to made cheaper and quicker and for the law to be extended to include private land to protect those who have to visit other people's homes as part of their work.
Hmmm, I don't think the dangerous dogs issue is so terribly pressing we want to see 'quick' justice, much less cheap justice!

And once again, the call to have laws that protect them only, and not everybody.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

In Northern Ireland it is now compulsory to have your dog microchipped. In case it gets lost, of course. Nothing to do with revenue collection as Fido is now a big hairy ID card. Muzzles and leads to be compulsory? In a cynical moment I wonder if it isn't a field trial for chipping "undesirables" as we are hearing a lot about attacks on nurses and ambulance staff. Something must be done indeed.

JuliaM said...

Yup, they seem to be planning the same thing here, which makes me wonder just which MP has shares in a pet microchip factory!

Hexe Froschbein said...

Obama has a solution here...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE3cpsdMg3Q