No body loves me

[highlandsflyer]

My idea is not to implement retrospectively.

All dog breeders would be required to build in the licensing and inspection schemes into their pricing, if they don't have time they pay a fee to the local dog control to do the inspections.

Dogs would still be available from rehoming schemes for those on lower incomes, and licenses issued at reduced rates for existing owners.

Perfectly feasible; and over the course of a couple of generations would lessen the problem.

Of course some breeders will go out of business, tough.

If nothing is done, nothing will improve.

 

[IDB1]

Policing it would be a nightmare just from a manpower pov if nowt else. At a time when budgets are being cut makes it even less possible.

Locating breeders would also be nigh-on impossible.. checking every local paper and corner shop window in every town across the whole country for adverts of puppy litters. . . just for starters.
All the free-ads sites next, all the (relevant) internet forums... etc. etc.

And it would probably be deemed against the human rights of low income families to restrict their choices in that way too.

The Animal Welfare Act was supposed to do something.. but it didn't.. same as the DDA before it.. it hasn't worked either..

 

[computerbitz]

Spiked Apples left in horse field

and another one

Spiked Apples left in horse field

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/article ... =154736609

 

[highlandsflyer]

Legislation has nothing to do with enforcement.

Take marijuana.

Impossible to 'man' those laws too.

It is the in principle illegality that is important.

Human rights are just that.

Dog ownership will not be extended as a human right believe me.

 

[IDB1]

No.. but if section a of the population have free choice and section b are restricted someone, somewhere will take issue..

Nothing that can be put in place this late in the day has the slightest chance of success.

Nobody knows how many litters are born each day/week/month.. nobody knows how many dogs are in the country.. how can it be possible to introduce any restrictions whatsoever?

 

[tintin40]

A good news dog story

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11413740

 

[Neil G]

someone abandons a baby on a plane no-one gives a c@*p, old woman chucks a cat in a bin/abandons a dog, the world goes mental. I think folk in this country care more about pets than they do people :?

I do

Animals have no choice as to what happens to them unlike some useless, waste of oxygen people that live here in the UK