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Tempus Fugit

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  1. On 18/11/2023 at 6:25 AM, tdierikx said:

     

    XL Bullies are not on our import ban list - which are essentially the breeds that QLD wants to ban. The fact that there are SFA of those actual breeds anywhere in Australia is moot. This legislation is not designed to actually be helpful to the pet owning public, just an exercise in applying more restrictive rules to attract fines, and make enforcement easier for those tasked with that role... RSPCA I'm looking at you - you can't be integral to formulating that legislation, then publicly decry it - cake and eat it anyone?

     

    T.

    I think the RSPCA changed its stature after Dr Hugh Worth departed as head honcho. Shows the organisation has factions just like political parties.

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  2. On 17/09/2023 at 4:37 AM, Dumdum said:

    They likely will, public consensus.

    it’s a shame. The breed was created to be a very stable animal.

    wrong kind of people are ruining it by introducing aggressive dogs to their breeding.

    banning it drives it underground and it continues in that direction. Great shame.

     

    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.

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  3. 10 hours ago, Deeds said:

    https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/calls-to-ban-rottweiler-dogs-after-two-people-mauled-in-one-week/news-story/645af7f926ff625f3be356f5629f5f11

     

    Already predicted this would happen by some Dolers.   I've never met a nasty one yet but I've met some nasty JRTs .

    Rotties are already a restricted breed in Ireland and a category 2 restricted breed in France. At least they're not banned totally.

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  4. 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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  5. 13 hours ago, asal said:

    He is right, this is a national disgrace.

    So is the road toll, so is domestic violence, so are the human on human attacks that occur with monotonous regularity. I don't put much store in Sky News.


    At a motel, an unsupervised child so young could easily have been killed by someone backing their car out of a parking spot or have he could have run onto the road and been hit by a passing car. The incident brings to mind an earlier child death https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/girl-brutally-killed-by-dogs/news-story/f81cde69dcd7290c72921f3363e2a682.

    As for the meter reader, it appears the meters on the subject property had been read numerous times in the past with no incidents, the dogs being contained behind a fence, so it would appear there was an agreed protocol in place. Why there was a breakdown would be the subject of an investigation by OH&S authorities and the coroner. The fact that it happened on a Saturday rather than a normal Mon-Fri workday could be a factor.

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  6. On 29/11/2022 at 3:47 PM, coneye said:

    But here in Aust we don't have a need for dogs that are bred to kill 

    I think you will find dogs used for pig hunting in Australia can be a mite agressive.

    Overseas there are quite a lot of breeds used for hunting large animals or livestock guarding that could potentially be imported to Australia. The latter need to have the gameness to fight predatory wolves, lynxes etc.

  7. Don't forget BSL doesn't necessarily involve a complete ban on owning a breed. In Ireland for example BSL means you can't take your gsd or rottie among certain other breeds in public unless muzzled. Other countries like Denmark & Iceland have similar BSL restrictions. Interesting though to compare with the campaign by greyhound rescue groups in Aus getting muzzle restrictions on retired greys removed.

    However muzzle-in-public laws are no use in preventing attacks by unmuzzled dogs that escape from their owner's premises as in the case of the cattle dog mentioned by ASAL. Theoretically such dogs need to be classified as a "Dangerous Dog" requiring special containment.

    Also, as other posts have stated, there are dozens of breeds that are candidates for BSL if you are going to have BSL as a control measure. Apart from pitbulls, I have never been able to fathom why Australia's BSL only involves four breeds.

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  8. I wouldn't leave my dog tied up outside a pub or restaurant to have a lengthy meal, but travelling solo with my dog in warmer months, staying at a country town caravan park, I have tied my dog up outside a shop briefly in order to buy takeaway food, newspaper etc. If I'm not allowed to leave my dog locked in a hot van, what other option is there? In bygone times, drovers used to tie up their horses & dogs outside country pubs.

  9. On 30/04/2022 at 4:57 PM, Diva said:

    I like Clothier’s very reasonable comment- ‘every breed has a bell curve’.    Yep. That doesn’t make breed irrelevant. 

     

    Another take:  https://smartagain.org/2022/04/28/humans-cant-quit-a-basic-myth-about-dog-breeds/.

     

    I agree with Diva's bell curve (gaussian distribution) comment. This is necessary for the evolutionary process of natural selection in all species. The curve can be shifted by environmental factors or deliberately through selective breeding, as shown by the Russian fox experiment where one group of foxes were bred over time for docility and another for the opposite trait. As an example look at the way German shepherds have changed such that Malinois are now the favoured working breed. Thus the pitbull breed which is supposed to be predominantly a 'game' fighting dog could be turned into a predominantly 'nanny dog' with only a small number of the population showing 'fight gameness'

  10. Is this another case of RSPCA overkill or were the dogs really so mentally damaged they couldn't be rescued?
     
    9 News Adelaide
    A Border Collie breeder is standing trial, accused of damaging her dogs’ mental states so badly that some had to sadly be put down.
    The RSPCA says she ignored repeated warnings to clean up her "faeces-ridden" property and provide adequate food and shelter.
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