Jackie Abikhair Webboard User Reg: 11-19-2012
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Last week there was a story in the paper about a little dog that went missing from her backyard. The dog was later found, torn up, bloody and dead from obvious bite wounds. Now this..
I'm not overly concerned at the moment; my dogs are kept inside and I live 30 minutes away from the area that this is happening. But I'm seriously worried about the fact that no-one's come forward with any information. Surely someone would've seen a vehicle, heard dogs barking, anything! Police have no leads, and the RSPCA doesn't appear to be doing much in the way of assisting. In fact, the RSPCA wrote an article for an animal magazine recently stating that dog-fighting rings in Australia are very rare and generally quite disorganised and unprofessional...
It's also worth noting that BSL hasn't stopped idiots from acquiring 'dangerous dogs' and using them for blood sports.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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I wish this was rare or isolated, but it's not.
I started to type about the stolen pet dogs the local SPCA has taken in, after they were seized in dogfighting raids .... but .... no need to say more than "this is not isolated."
And to add that when there are threads here about leaving a dog outside (fence irrelevant) when none of the family members are there, or tied to the meter outside a store downtown, and the members warn about "teased, abused, poisoned ..... or worse," this falls under "worse."
tracey holden Webboard User Reg: 07-17-2010
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This is a major problem in particular areas in the UK.
Dogs are being stolen from gardens, houses, and more worryingly, physically taken from people out on walks, the breeds that this filth favour are the 'soft' breeds, Spaniels, Pointers etc, because these are dogs they can sell on, hold for ransom, or use as bait dogs.
One woman I know of has re mortgaged her house so she can offer a reward of £10,000 to get her dog back; I have mixed feelings about that, the people that have her know now what she is worth to them, and could just exploit that.
The scum carrying out these crimes are getting more inventive about how they take these dogs, and it makes my blood run cold when I think about what is happening to these dogs, and the good old RSPCA are impotent to stop the rise if the crime, the police are making reports on cases, but are pretty ineffective in tracing them.
Elaine Haynes Webboard User Reg: 08-16-2005
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All this is just more proof that (1)BSL laws don't work. Thieves, those that fight dogs illegally,and others of that ilk, don't give a c**p about the law. (2) Organizations such as the SPCA and RSPCA, which often support BSL, are in denial (or worse) about the problem of stolen pets. (3) Animal control often doesn't do anything for one reason or another, (4) police don't do more than file reports because they have higher priorities.
That leave it up to us as owners and the law does its best to tie our hands in so many ways in many places these days. No wonder criminals are getting bolder.
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Dog-nappings on the rise
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