Grrr, dog owners !

[IDB1]

Erm. No.
The amendment was a significant number of years ago and serve to highlight that it changes, at best, occasionally.
You may well have much experience under your belt but numbers of years in dog ownership don't automatically mean anything significant.

**edit to add** it will continue to change, that is a given. And if history is anything to go by, not necessarily for the better.

 

[Grannygrinder]

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I wasn't aware that if you double bag the poop you can put it in any bin.
Certainly worth knowing, the number of miles i've walked looking for a poo bin is huge

Please don't tar all dog owners with the same brush some of us are, if anything, overly responsible

 

[not_fat_matt]

Well well, all this talk of horrendous dog owners with thier pesky hounds, i just had to find this........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm5B_pyPd20

Not all of us dog owners are bad, and this thread seems to be straying far from the OP's original point

 

[IDB1]

Sorry Rusty Scrubber.. that wasn't supposed to sound as argumentative as it did.. I think perhaps we have different views of what constitutes constantly..

There were more changes than I remembered so thanks for posting them up.

 

[Charlieboy28]

Rongo has a dog, its a killer :twisted:

 

[We_are_Stevo]

Y'know.. even if you think a dog may bite you (or your children, if any are with you), even if it is on a lead, you can report it and the owner may be prosecuted under the Dangerous Dog Act.

Size and breed makes no difference.

Dogs out of control in a public place

If a dog is dangerously out of control in a public place – then the owner or the person in charge of the dog is guilty of an offence, or, if the dog while so out of control injures any person, an aggravated offence under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. In proceedings against a person who is the owner of a dog but at the material time was not in charge of it, it should be a defence for the accused to prove that the dog was at the material time in the charge of a person whom he reasonably believed to be a fit and proper person to be in charge of it.

Section 10(2) of the 1991 Act defines a public place as meaning any street, road or other place to which the public have, or are permitted to have access. This is a wide definition of a public place and one which specifically includes the common parts of a building containing two or more dwellings. It is intended to cover, for instance, those parts of a block of flats where, although there may be a secure front entry door so that the interior of the flat is not a place to which the public has unrestricted access, nevertheless the common parts are, in all other respects, a public place.

A person found guilty of an offence may face imprisonment or a fine, and the courts may disqualify the offender from having custody of a dog for any period.

Probably best not to make unsunbstantiated claims when the legislation is but a click away for those interested enough to look; a Courts definition of an offence would be somewhat different to some of the biased opinions expressed above...

 

[Rusty Scrubber]

 

[cyfa2809]

Well well, all this talk of horrendous dog owners with thier pesky hounds, i just had to find this........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm5B_pyPd20

Not all of us dog owners are bad, and this thread seems to be straying far from the OP's original point

Good to see that again.

Good dog owners are great.

That rongo is a whole different story though.

Havent seen him around lately, bet he got put away for dog related offences.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Y'know.. even if you think a dog may bite you (or your children, if any are with you), even if it is on a lead, you can report it and the owner may be prosecuted under the Dangerous Dog Act.

Size and breed makes no difference.

Dogs out of control in a public place

If a dog is dangerously out of control in a public place – then the owner or the person in charge of the dog is guilty of an offence, or, if the dog while so out of control injures any person, an aggravated offence under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. In proceedings against a person who is the owner of a dog but at the material time was not in charge of it, it should be a defence for the accused to prove that the dog was at the material time in the charge of a person whom he reasonably believed to be a fit and proper person to be in charge of it.

Section 10(2) of the 1991 Act defines a public place as meaning any street, road or other place to which the public have, or are permitted to have access. This is a wide definition of a public place and one which specifically includes the common parts of a building containing two or more dwellings. It is intended to cover, for instance, those parts of a block of flats where, although there may be a secure front entry door so that the interior of the flat is not a place to which the public has unrestricted access, nevertheless the common parts are, in all other respects, a public place.

A person found guilty of an offence may face imprisonment or a fine, and the courts may disqualify the offender from having custody of a dog for any period.

Probably best not to make unsunbstantiated claims when the legislation is but a click away for those interested enough to look; a Courts definition of an offence would be somewhat different to some of the biased opinions expressed above...

IDB1 is right. I think you have misunderstood his post.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

'even if you think a dog may bite you (or your children, if any are with you), even if it is on a lead'...

...hardly constitutes a 'dangerously out of control' dog now does it?

I have been on the receiving end of a malicious complaint about one of our dogs when I remonstrated with a woman who was walking her dog on one of those extending leads, allowing it to crap in my driveway whilst she stood 10' away pretending she didn't know what it was doing. Our Great Dane came running down the drive to see what the fuss was all about and barked at her when she started shouting at me (he was too much of a wuss to actually leave the driveway!)...

...the next thing we knew we had two Coppers standing in our kitchen lecturing me on responsible dog ownership!

I very politely asked them to leave...

...the CPS can be a very useful organisation when it works