john.davey.1960

If penicillin was tested in guinea pigs it would never have got on the market. thalidomide was tested in animals and was found to be safe!!!! Be careful what you wish for, close enough is not good enough. Animal testing is simply legal shenanigans to exculpate the guilty.

Tell him to read his lease. Unless it says no dogs then there's nothing the landlord can do until renewal time. Don't worry about the whiners. Either they're there to help the dogs or feed their egoes.

The sooner this obscenity ceases the better.

Sadly that is entirely correct horse. The naieve will beg to differ but they are not acting in the dog's best interests.

Yes, when we stop traeting dogs other than the companion animals they are and supporting organisations which kill them because they refuse to buid sufficient shelters. Go No Kill Australia.

The majority of dogs would be MUCH happier doing the job they were designed to do that sitting around all day being 'companions'. I actually find it a little distasteful to have dogs considered as purely our 'entertainment'. While humans have developed a rapport with them, the majority of breeds were NEVER designed to be just companions and to say so shows an extreme lack of understanding of the species and its development. Dogs though history and now have assisted man. The jobs that dogs do are many and varied. They were on the whole bred to work. There are dogs that heard stock, dogs that protect stock, dogs that find things such as lost or trapped people, cancer, truffles and so on, dogs that alert to impending seizures, dogs that assist the deaf, dogs that assist with mobility, dogs that assist the blind, dogs that help control vermin, dogs that protect us, dogs that help us transport ourselves and our goods from A to B, dogs that help us hunt and feed our family (and on a worldwide basis these are still very important needs - we should not be so insular as to only look at dogs through western urban eyes). I have met working dogs doing all sorts of roles and on the whole these dogs are happy, fulfilled, and live a fuller life than most 'companion' dogs who live at someone beck and call in their backyard - many of which are slowly going crazy for lack of a job and doing the things that we hear about time and time again on these forums - digging, barking ,escaping, destroying things etc etc. The 'working' dogs on the other hand get on the majority more attention and more fulfillment doing something they were bred to do. When it comes to 'sniffer' dogs quite a few are dogs that have such a high drive that they were not suited as 'companions' - Their suburban backyard owners couldnt give them what they needed to be happy. They could be PTS by the pounds and shelters at that point but instead they go on to have a fulfilling life as a working dog. Time to get real. Dog fighters say their dogs are happiest when fighting, hunters say their dogs are happiest when killing, slave owners say their dogs are happiest when chasing runaways. Dogs have to change with the times. Killing them rather than retraining them says more about the killers than the dogs.

If some of these animal rights orgs ever get their way, you can say goodbye to your companion dog, may as well replace It now with a hardy stuffed toy! I'm sure It can be a great companion for you and It's rights will never be violated! Take away a working dogs ability to work and you may as well kill them all, Is that what you want What do you suppose will happen if all these dogs were just companions? Sure some may very well adapt to a life of sleeping and eating, but I guarantee many won't! I've said It before every dog has a purpose, take away that purpose and you'll be left with nothing let alone a companion Your right about the animal groups. Dogs are what we make them. Pits are no more natural fighters than GSDs are natural, shepherds. Agility would be better for dogs than seeing them blown to bits on the battlefield.

Because that is how they con people out of their dosh.

As usual humans degrade themselves and their companion animals in attempts to justify bad policy. Dogfighters, hunters etc. would say they produce the best dogs while we all know deep down there is more to dogs than being our workhorses. Get rid of sniffer dogs and racing dogs and let dogs be what they truly are, our companions.

Buying animals is like buying a lottery, no guarantee of anything. Does anyone really believe people who can't get dog control right will give a toss about the dogs. Their victims will simply be the poor. Where will it end when some one realises that the bitch they bought needs a C-section or the face that can't breathe is summer is actually a misformed dog irrespective of breed standsrds. It seems like the dog community is continuing to stick it's head in the sand while their rights are whittled away.

Typical uncaring council in my view in league with this country's greatest companion animal killers. Where's the the proof the dogs are suffering? None quoted so I suspect there is none.

Next we'll be killing dingoes, oh we already do that! It is precisely this type of thinking that resulted in no Tass ie Tiger. They were a pest. Prove the legislation can and does work before killing companion animals.

Supporters of this type of legislation need to show where it has worked in the past. Basically it is a revenue raiser and has nothing to do with animal welfare. Microchipped dogs continue to die in droves and now we can add cats to the list.

HA or DA is about dogs not knowing where there place is in society. It may be genetic or a product of poor socialisation or more likely both. It is not in a dog's nature to be naturally aggressive. Even the Fila, despite much nonsense peddled about it exits as a show dog in thousands of homes with no problem. Likewise the APBT (or SBT or AmStaff). Grotesque media reports turn the animals into monsters yet Labs causing similar injury are ignored or mislabelled as APBTs.

The first and still the best are Dr Carl Semencic's books on various breeds. Richard Stratton's first book mentions the breed. The Johnston was the pug-faced manstopper, Scott lines were abused for fighting and there is a third line not known about except by the aficianados. The dog in the last Little Rascals film was a Scott type.