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You can download and read the Committee report from the Victorian Government Inquiry into BSL here. Link to download the report for Inquiry into the Legislative and Regulatory Framework Relating to Restricted Breed Dogs > Report and Response

We now have another free Bill Bruce seminar which is mid week. The seminar is being hosted by City of Moonee Valley with a lot of support from the Mayor. Thursday, 22 October, 1pm. Clocktower Centre, 750 Mt Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds, Vic., 3039. See flyer below link for flyer with rsvp details. This is a free event.

Dogs On Trial, DOT Victoria BILL BRUCE SEMINAR.....YOU ARE ALL INVITED 2PM, 24 OCTOBER 2015 PLEASE SHARE With thanks to RSPCA Victoria who have kindly supplied their facilities, a seminar has been organised with Bill Bruce speaking. Bill is the retired Director of Animal Services and Bylaws in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and implemented what is now referred to as the Calgary Model. This model of management has been and continues to be an astounding success and does not involve Breed Specific Legislation. Thanks to the generosity of our supporters at Dogs On Trial, the auctions run by Bobbie-Lee and the sale of our merchandise. Without our supporters, we would not have been able to bring Bill Bruce to Melbourne to speak with the Victorian Parliamentary Committee at the Inquiry into the Legislative and Regulatory Framework Relating to Restricted Breed Dogs. Look forward to seeing you on the 24th. SEATING IS LIMITED SO RSVP QUICKLY IF YOU WISH TO ATTEND My link

No, sorry, that is incorrect. The group responsible for bringing Bill Bruce out from Canada to speak with the Committee that is doing the inquiry is Dogs On Trail, DOT Victoria. Bill is being brought out from Canada by DOT using funds that have come from the sale of their merchandise, fund raising auctions and donations. You can read the information about this in the submission that Dogs On Trial have made to the inquiry.

The AMO's at Brimbank CC are not anti BSL. One may be, the others are very pro bsl as was evident when they gave evidence against Mylo.

If you would like to see the overhead slides used by Bill in his talk, you can download from the following link. They are in my dropbox. Bill has given permission to me to convert the files, and post this, as previously they were in an apple format and not all could view. You can also find the link on Dogs On Trial DOT Victoria facebook page. We had the pleasure of organising and hosting the Sunday seminar, also having dinner with Bill and his lovely wife during his week here. Absolutely wonderful people, and Bill is a common sense genius in my opinion. Please let me know if the link doesn't work. Hope it is okay to post here. Animal Services Presentation Calgary Model by Bill Bruce

Bill Bruce will be interviewed on the 7.30 Show Victoria, ABC1 Friday night (25 Oct). Bill said it was an excellent interview. Looking forward to watching. There will be an online link available after the show has aired. :)

Bill Bruce will be interviewed on the 7.30 Show Victoria, ABC1 Friday night (25 Oct). Bill said it was an excellent interview. Looking forward to watching. There will be an online link available after the show has aired. :)

Aphra, glad you enjoyed the seminar. Bit disappointed that more people didn't attend, but overall, it went very well. Dogs On Trial organized the seminar. On the panel , Graeme McEwan, BAWP, Karen Davies, Vet Dr David Lowe, representing Dogs Victoria, Allie Jalbert, RSPCA Dr Susan Maastricht, AVA, Robert Holmes, dog behaviorist, Brad Griggs, dog trainer, And of course, Bill Bruce. :) Every council in Victoria was invited to attend either the Sunday seminar or the Monday seminar. I think a couple of council people attended the Sunday one, and about 3 councils were represented at the Monday seminar.

This was the case in Rockets appeal.

He is only doing this because owners are appealing and winning. He has not much clue of what he is talking about as far as I can see, and the publicity with the dogs who are going home is bothering him. It is also costing the government and the councils a lot of money when dogs are being impounded for so long, and then win. More people are finding out what BSL really means, and the media are finally being a bit more honest when it comes to reporting on BSL, and showing both sides. As stated in the video, definitely a wiff of desperation about it! The ABC 7.30 show was a positive and fair segment I thought. :D And showed the Minister up for what he is.

Would he be on death row if the owners were responsible enough to contain him in a secure back yard.......he was served up on a plate due to irresponsible ownership is my point, he was wandering at large in someone else's yard when extra precautions needed to be taken to keep an unregistered dog of Pitbull appearance safe in which his owners failed him. The sad bit is that the owners of these types of dogs are just letting the legislation take it's course.........the outs are in the legislation and they need to start using it?? Exactly what outs are in the legislation?

No, BAWP didn't have anything to do with Rocket's case. His case was handled and helped by Dogs On Trial DOT Victoria/ForDogsSake Australia. Registered fundraiser. DOT/FDS arranged all the legals, and funding. :) Big job and extremely costly. And even though Rocket's first VCAT appeal, where he lost and took it to the Supreme court, and then that first VCAT hearing was ruled in error by the Supreme, there is no refund for the botched VCAT hearing, and then there are more costs involved in the second VCAT hearing. You don't usually win costs in any VCAT hearing. Can't win financially in this. Even when you win costs in the Supreme court, you still do not get all the costs back. Just to claim the costs, you lose 10% straight away, and then you have to wait and wait and wait. The costs that were won re the Dudas case, the first Supreme Court appeal with the dog Baby, have not come back as yet. That appeal was won last December, we are now into July. It stinks.

Totally agree. Dougie is a very energetic young boy. He has come out the way you would expect (I think) a dog to come out of the pound. Being locked up as a pup, and spending well over a year in the pound is a shocking thing to do to a dog. Hopefully he will settle down and get some training. It has always been a worry with all the dogs who have spent time in the pound and then sent home with the owners being given no support. One dog was in there for well over a year, had pups, and the owners were handed back not 1 dog, but at least 5 or so large pups that were over a year old. It is a disgrace, truly it is. Don't have any contact with these people, so I can't say how they went after being released, but just the fact that this can happened is a shocker. The Government and the councils don't care though..

This has been in the planning since late last year, and finally is going to happen. Hopefully a step in the right direction to gain some sanity in Victoria regarding dog legislation. Please share this around to anywhere that may be interested. Post from Barristers Animal Welfare Panel on Facebook. "Subject to raising the necessary funds, the Panel has arranged for retired Calgary ranger, Bill Bruce, to come to Australia in the second half of October to meet with media and politicians and espouse the merits of the Calgary model and explain the deficiencies of breed specific legislation. Tomorrow we will post to our internet site details of how to become a member of or make a donation to the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel Foundation. The Foundation has been established as a trust for general fundraising and handling of monies with the pro bono assistance of international law firm King & Wood Mallesons. The Foundation is a separate entity from the Panel as the Panel does not handle monies." Link to facebook page with announcement. BAWP Facebook page