Link - http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/fro...751555449.html
Dublin City Council has decided to ban its tenants from owning certain breeds of dogs following a number of dog attacks. Tenants who own such breeds and who fail to get rid of their animals face eviction.
This is the kind of crass diktat I would expect from a New Lie council. It penalises the majority of responsible dog owners in order to address a problem of the few. Doesn't the council have powers to deal with individual cases where owners fail to keep a dog under control? Or is it too much of an 'elf 'n safety issue for council bods to have the spine and the balls to deal with these irresponsible owners?
I've kept Dobermans for years and you can train them to be the most gentle placid animals or the best guard dogs in the world. I have friends who keep Rotwiellers and Alsatians and they train their dogs not to be a danger to people or other dogs. - it's all down to the owner, not the dog.
I can see other councils across England, Wales and Scotland watching very closely to see how Dublin handles this and how successful it is. It's only a matter of time before it arrives here.
PS - on this new forum, I don't get a prompt to link a word to a URL - has something changed?
Dublin City Council has decided to ban its tenants from owning certain breeds of dogs following a number of dog attacks. Tenants who own such breeds and who fail to get rid of their animals face eviction.
This is the kind of crass diktat I would expect from a New Lie council. It penalises the majority of responsible dog owners in order to address a problem of the few. Doesn't the council have powers to deal with individual cases where owners fail to keep a dog under control? Or is it too much of an 'elf 'n safety issue for council bods to have the spine and the balls to deal with these irresponsible owners?
I've kept Dobermans for years and you can train them to be the most gentle placid animals or the best guard dogs in the world. I have friends who keep Rotwiellers and Alsatians and they train their dogs not to be a danger to people or other dogs. - it's all down to the owner, not the dog.
I can see other councils across England, Wales and Scotland watching very closely to see how Dublin handles this and how successful it is. It's only a matter of time before it arrives here.
PS - on this new forum, I don't get a prompt to link a word to a URL - has something changed?
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