Who’s Policing The Police?




March 3, 2009 by Ryan O'Meara
It’s getting to the point now where a very worrying trend is
developing. Dogs are dying, weekly, in police care - more dogs are
being seized as ‘pit bull type’ which actually look nothing
more than American Bulldog or Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross who are
being ABUSED and neglected having never shown a single shred of
aggression to anyone.
The UK government needs to step in and stop this, right now.
If we don’t replace breed specific legislation with a fair,
effective law that will protect the public and end the routine death
and abuse of dogs which have NEVER been aggressive or acted
dangerously, how can we, in good conscience, expect the public to
elevate animal welfare standards?
Does the animal welfare act not apply to police seized dogs?
When will we realise that any country that routinely kills dogs
because of what they look like can NEVER lay claim to being a nation of
animal lovers.
If we rounded up every single Bullbreed dog in the UK today and
euthanised each one, would we honestly believe that we’d just
solved the dangerous dog problem?
No! Of course not, it’s a ludicrous idea. So just what the
HELL are we doing seizing random dogs, here and there, subjecting them
to conditions which are actually MORE likely to turn a placid family
pet in to a disturbed, scared animal - at best - and in a worse case,
see that pet die or suffer, for absolutely no reason?
We have a law that is acknowledged to have failed.
The Kennel Club don’t support BSL, the RSPCA don’t, the
Dogs Trust doesn’t, dog wardens don’t - so why do we still
have it? It’s still here. It’s still affecting people every
day. It’s still the route cause of much death and suffering. What
more needs to happen before we acknowledge that we have royally cocked
it up on dangerous dogs?
In 1990, the Labour government opposed Kenneth Baker’s
Dangerous Dogs Act. They suggested an alternative that would involve
dogs and owners being licenced.
Well, they’ve been in power long enough, they’ve even
had their own MPs speak out against the ineffectiveness of the law -
yet they keep it.
Why?
Well, I can only assume it’s because we just haven’t
made the case against the law loudly enough. We haven’t made the
dog owner vote count. There are 7.3m dog owners in the UK. You have a
voice. You can and SHOULD speak up on the issues that - may not effect
your own dog - but absolutely DO affect the species you love.
Please, read this.
Then please - make your voice heard.

hear hear

i have heard horrendus storys of these dogs being locked in soilitary confinment as they are "dangerous" which makes the dogs worse of course wen liverpool were having a clamp down on pitts the pics of dogs being seized really made me mad as they were clearly staffie mixes!!!! hencde my worries about dillan i think my sis said she would rather have him PTS by our vet at home then have his seized and locked up till she can get him free if she can ever get him free, my mum said shed leave the country with him lol

they are your family ffs as much as some ppl dont understand its like having your child taken from you doesnt matter that he/she has pitt in them they are a living breathing crature at the end of the day wen will it end!?

its doggy racism at the end of the day sterotype one type of dog for all the wrongs just how human socity works really im not saying these dogs are not dangerous in the wrong hands they are but so are rotts GSD's staffies AB Mastiffs ect ect the list is endless and IMO inc labs Goldies the most agressive type of dog i ever meet are goldies belive it or not due to the over breeding going on collies terriers the list is endless. and im sick to my back teeth of ppl blaming bull breeds and gaurding breeds for all the shit owners out there who abuse their animals.
if we ban rotts GSD ect who will be out their with our troops keeping them safe, making sure they come home to their loved ones? who will be out on the streets keeping the police safe? who will be out with sarda and other sar organizatons? we reliy upon dogs soooooooo much in our daily lives so much so we dont even relise i fo one want to know if a family member went missing the dogs come out as i know then they will find that family member no matter what.
how many rotts staffies GSDs dobes pitts have saved ppls lives? even if its just though the love they give, to make that owner want to live another day for their best mate, in the USA pitts are as service dogs for children, as police drugs dogs these animals have their place in socity its the ppl who abuse them that DO NOT!!

rant over lol

:love: :love: rant away hun

your absaloutly right

thank you :love:

As ever, I fully agree with you Fazbo