sandgrubber

You can write a demand letter without a solicitor. Google to find examples/online forms. Letterhead may make it look more serious, but won't make any legal difference.

Agree it's a stupid thing to do. But I feel a Libertarian twinge about law enforcement coming in. Attempts to outlaw stupidity tend to have secondary effects. Seems like, after a few hours trying to use the thing, she would have realised it was a recipe for disaster and stopped using it. All in all, I'd prefer that people not do stupid stuff because they see it's stupid, as opposed to not doing it because they might get fined.

Death by starvation may be worse. How many animals we loose to unceasing growth

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16UufAW9Dm/ Btw, my two are couch potatoes, don't dig, and prefer clean-ish water.

Time waster. See comments under managing my dog's destructive behavior, same person, four days later.

More information needed. How old? What type of breed of dog? How long left alone?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360650519/thousands-auckland-dog-owners-hit-fines Registering dogs is only a first step, but it's a good first step. I only wish they'd do the same for cats. Having moved from Oz to NZ, I generally find Kiwis are more sensible with dog legislation.

My hackles went up at the first sentence. Dogs are omnivores, NOT carnivores. As compared to wolves, dog DNA shows they are far better endowed to digest starch. They evolved eating refuse and probably feces from primitive and early agricultural people. The next oops came in saying cooking "destroys" the nutrients. So we humans get no nutrition from eating cooked meat? I couldn't listen to the rest. Veterinarian or not, the guy is NOT a scientist. I bought Give Your Dog a Bone when it first came out. I remember recipes that included raisins. I have fed raw when I have had good sources, and, yes, most dogs love it, and if you stick to soft bones of an appropriate size to avoid choking, without too much fat, they do well with bones added to their daily fare. But no need to make a religion out of it.

Of course rule out medical causes first, but... It might just be a staffie thing. When I had a boarding kennel we got an occasional staffie that had to be kept well separate from some other dog, or all dogs. Generally this set in at around 3 years. If you have $ and time you can try a behaviorist, but it's not the easiest problem to fix.

More enforcement. Not more laws!

But look what it did for Standard Poodles. Maybe they did a careful analysis of problematic recessive genes that a half sibling mating might bring out, but I doubt it.

Is she really a Border Collie? Yccch! Line breeding in hope of big $.

Buy mini paint rollers from AliExpress or Timu. They're great for a small destructive dog and very cheap. Don't make a big mess, either.

All the fools ain't dead yet! Interesting dog, nice Romantic vibes, but who knows when it comes to temperament. Absurd price.

Perhaps the most disturbing thing here is that this happened 3+ years ago. I'm in New Zealand and heard nothing of it. Nor has there been any obvious followup. Nothing on Google.