Seized Irish Mix Breeds Returned to Guardian
Here’s a perfect example of why Breed Specific Legislation doesn’t work. Someone thought these dogs were pit pulls so they pulled them away from a lovely senior citizen who loves and cares for them. If this isn’t another version of unfair discrimination I don’t know what is!
And why did it take a year to figure out these dogs are peaceful and non-threatening?
Thanks to BBC News for this article.
Seized pet dogs back with owner
Two dogs saved from a destruction order by a magistrate earlier this week have been returned to their owner in east Belfast.
Mongrels Roxy and Hooch spent the last year in a dog pound, because it was thought they were pit bulls.The animals were seized by Belfast City Council last January after a report that their owner, 64-year-old Irene Chambers, kept dangerous dogs.
However, on Wednesday a magistrate accepted the dogs were mongrels.
Dismissing the charges he said the dogs were owned by a “loving and caring lady”.
Mrs Chambers cried when the ruling was made.
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The breed-specific legislation bothers me for exactly this reason- those that are required to enforce it often can’t differentiate between what is a ‘pit bull’ and what isn’t. That and I don’t think that a breed should be rendered extict because of foolish and agressive owners. I would prefre to see ‘owner-specific legislation’.
Did they have to keep using the term “mongrels”?? Honestly, nobody says that anymore! lol
So glad they’re home, even though it was ridiculous they were gone for so long in the first place… >:0
The law is not a good one, but remember it is being pushed on us by animal rights groups, and they do not want you to own any pets.
The National Pet Press is currently working on informing the pet loving public about groups that do not work in our best interest..
Animal rights groups have become so co-mingled with welfare groups, and vets, that their true identiy is obscure.
We must be careful what we support or we may be helping out the very people who are for such laws.