No-nonsense dog stance
The mandatory euthanasia of dogs caught wandering and mandatory sterilisation of certain breeds are being advocated by the Gore District Council as the Government looks at tightening dog control legislation.
Well, I guess I won't be moving to Gore !
The extreme measures were included in a letter to the Internal Affairs Department's local government and community policy group after the council was invited to comment on legislative and non-legislative options to improve public safety around dogs.
Huh? How to you improve public safety?? sheese. why don't you castrate all pedophiles!
In the letter, chief executive Steve Parry says mandatory euthanasia may sound harsh but dog owners would soon get the message. The infringement systems had its merits but did not work with repeat offenders. So you are going to destroy perfectly good dogs because you can't manage bad dog owners? So, this is suppose to make sense?
Wandering dogs were the scourge of just about every community in the country, the letter says.
And so... why don't you make sure that wandering dogs are socialised
Local authorities should be able to seize and immediately euthanase a dog caught wandering without going through the lengthy and arduous process with its owner.
Holy shit!! democracy and civil liberties destroyed. The tip of the iceberg. Sounds more like, guilty before proven innocent.
As well as advocating the steril-isation of certain breeds of dogs, the council also wants to include any dog with an element of an offending breed.
And how do you envision doing this?
Other changes included requiring dogs to be on a leash at all times in public and wiping council's obligation to hold unregistered dogs for seven days.
Who wrote the letter again?
3 Comments:
At 1:02 p.m.,
Anonymous said…
Gore seems to be having a knee jerk reaction... Why don't they look at some type of owner licencing instead. With tests proving their suitability to dog ownership. There are many people that are not fit to own dogs, that don't understand how dogs think and their need for a defined pack leader. Socialising your dog is important but it is not the reason they attack. It is the status that their owners allow them to cultivate or unwittingly give to them because they know nothing about dogs. All dogs are dangerous regardless of breed put in the wrong persons hands. Where is the management of the owners. No-one makes sure they are getting the correct level of exercise for the energy levels. built up energy equals frustration and add that to poor socialisation and the mistaken belief they 'own' the neighborhood and it is their job to defend it and hello dog attack. Surely there is another way rather than eradicating a breed.
At 2:37 p.m.,
llew said…
Actually, I wouldn't care if the wandering dog was socialised, spoke Esperanto & could beat me at Texas Hold 'em poker. It's still a stray dog & its owners are responsible for its behaviour.
However, mandatory euthenasia is a bit harsh - I agree with it for recidivist strays, but enough clowns leave people's gates wide open & let their dogs out that it'd be pretty rough to put down first offenders.
But it doesn't matter if the dog is socialised or not, if the irresponsible dog owners (there, not such a generalisation) would stop their dogs from wandering, there'd be a lot less public hysteria.
At 2:48 p.m.,
llew said…
"The tip of the iceberg. Sounds more like, guilty before proven innocent."
He's talking about dogs caught straying... he's talking about dogs proven guilty by that very fact.
Dog ownership is not a god given right, while there IS some degree of hysteria & ignorance about dogs, I do believe that it is OUR responsibility as dog owners to ensure that the general public feels safe while we're around.
Not the responsibility of the rest of the population to come around to our way of thinking.
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