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Tempus Fugit

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  1. Before you do, study how working police & protection sport dogs are trained to bite.
  2. As I understand it, the restrictions currently only apply to England & Wales. Scotland is intending to follow suit soon to stop xl bullys being dumped there. Not sure about Nth Ireland.
  3. So how rust resistant is it in salt water?
  4. I think the RSPCA changed its stature after Dr Hugh Worth departed as head honcho. Shows the organisation has factions just like political parties.
  5. They haven't even banned XL Bullies, which have been so contoversial in the UK.
  6. Update: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8417652/former-hall-vet-who-kept-restricted-drugs-not-above-the-law/?cs=14329&utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=
  7. Reminds me of the character of Mick Taylor in the Wolf Creek movies.
  8. https://min.news/en/pet/ef7e515ecb47d9d4371ab4446792da4a.html
  9. Its worrisome what is happening to the malinois breed. There seems to be an increase in facebook posts by breeding kennels emphasising their dog's attacking capability given they are marketing to security, military & police. I fear it is only a matter of time before there is a 'leakage' of aggresive dogs to the general public, just as there has been with 'game-bred' APBTs.
  10. Rotties are already a restricted breed in Ireland and a category 2 restricted breed in France. At least they're not banned totally.
  11. The article is behind a paywall. To reproduce it here would get the admins in trouble for breach of copyright.
  12. Had a bit of a giggle at the proposal to ban 5 particular breeds. Pitbull owners have long described their pets as American Staffordshires and I can think of heaps of mastiff breeds that are just as potentially dangerous as the other four breeds proposed to be banned. I guess they simply mimic the donkeys who drafted the relevant clause in the Commonwealth Customs Act.
  13. Scientific American article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-greyhound-racing-drove-the-evolution-of-a-superparasite/
  14. I think there has been some controversy over the lady in question for a while https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8055067/78-year-old-woman-accused-of-illegally-possessing-veterinary-drugs/
  15. The worry I would have with my dog running off in a rural area as per Sandgrubbers post is the risk of 1080 baits, snakes and cars on nearby roads. I agree with Anne that dogs are not robots. Different dogs of the same breed can have vastly different peronalities. Also they work on context. You can get a perfect recall in at an obedience training ground but in an off-lead area where there are strong distractions like foxes and roos not to mention other dogs, if there are no disagreeable consequences for your prey driven dog getting joy from ignoring your calls and chasing prey then it will contiue to do it. In past years, gun dogs used to get a thourough whipping once they had returned if they hadn't obeyed a recall. Nowadays there is a modern tool that can correct a dog while it is running off but after lobbying by do-gooders and the PP people governments have made the tool illegal to use and yet require our dogs to be under "effective control". Thankfully a lot of councils now have separate areas for big and small dogs at fenced dog parks but if I had to share an off lead area with small dogs when travelling through a town I got into the habit of putting a muzzle on my dog in case one of the little ones tried to attack my dog.
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