Electric Shock Collars Banned in Wales
The good news is that the Welsh Assembly have banned Electric ShockCollars. The bad news is that it remains legal to buy sell and use them for the forseeable future until further legislation is enacted.The very bad news is that the UK Government is not following suit. I remember a certain Anthony (call me Tony. I'm just a regular guy) Blair promising 'joined up government' when he came to power. That obviously doesn't cover things that probably 99% of the public think is wrong like cruelty.
How about this for a response to the ruling? A statement from the UK government says: "While we are aware of a number of scientific studies on electric shock collars DEFRA considers that to date those studies published in this area are not sufficiently robust and that the evidence base needs to be built on before consideration can be given to either banning or regulating their use."The government is not prepared to do this unless there is clear evidence that these devices in themselves are harmful to welfare.
"DEFRA,now there's a name to conjure with. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. would that be the same DEFRA whose incompetence at their own laboratories allowed the Foot and Mouth virus to escape thus decimating the UK cattle population, forcing many farmers into bankruptcy and some to suicide? The same DEFRA who have systematically made a complete hash out of dealing with, Bird Flu, Blue Tongue, the Bovine TB issue to name but a few? I'd go to Lucretia Borgia for cooking lessons before seeking DEFRAs opinion on animal welfare.
The fight goes on against both shock and spiked collars, we're not going away. How a supposedly intelligent person can put out a press release like the one above I just don't know. Did they not read what they had written before sending it out for release? Perhaps they should have said 'They're only a little bit cruel. Ok, so they hurt the dogs and place them under stress because the dog doesn't know what's going on but hey! We need to be robust and really put the animals under pressure so that we can see them really traumatised. Only then can we have discussion and focus groups talking at public expense for several years at least before coming up with some wishy washy non decision."
I favour the attitude of Sir Winston Churchill. When he was presented with a situation in which it was obvious what had to be done, what was the right thing to do, would write across the papers in big letters so that there could be no doubt about his wishes. "ACTION THIS DAY!". just let some civil servant or politician try and say they misunderstood the Prime Ministers intentions. Surely any right minded person must know that this equipment is cruel and therefore should not be available to anyone to use at anytime?
Click on the link below to read the whole story
http://www.dogworld.co.uk/News/27-welsh-ban-for-shock-collars
How about this for a response to the ruling? A statement from the UK government says: "While we are aware of a number of scientific studies on electric shock collars DEFRA considers that to date those studies published in this area are not sufficiently robust and that the evidence base needs to be built on before consideration can be given to either banning or regulating their use."The government is not prepared to do this unless there is clear evidence that these devices in themselves are harmful to welfare.
"DEFRA,now there's a name to conjure with. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. would that be the same DEFRA whose incompetence at their own laboratories allowed the Foot and Mouth virus to escape thus decimating the UK cattle population, forcing many farmers into bankruptcy and some to suicide? The same DEFRA who have systematically made a complete hash out of dealing with, Bird Flu, Blue Tongue, the Bovine TB issue to name but a few? I'd go to Lucretia Borgia for cooking lessons before seeking DEFRAs opinion on animal welfare.
The fight goes on against both shock and spiked collars, we're not going away. How a supposedly intelligent person can put out a press release like the one above I just don't know. Did they not read what they had written before sending it out for release? Perhaps they should have said 'They're only a little bit cruel. Ok, so they hurt the dogs and place them under stress because the dog doesn't know what's going on but hey! We need to be robust and really put the animals under pressure so that we can see them really traumatised. Only then can we have discussion and focus groups talking at public expense for several years at least before coming up with some wishy washy non decision."
I favour the attitude of Sir Winston Churchill. When he was presented with a situation in which it was obvious what had to be done, what was the right thing to do, would write across the papers in big letters so that there could be no doubt about his wishes. "ACTION THIS DAY!". just let some civil servant or politician try and say they misunderstood the Prime Ministers intentions. Surely any right minded person must know that this equipment is cruel and therefore should not be available to anyone to use at anytime?
Click on the link below to read the whole story
http://www.dogworld.co.uk/News/27-welsh-ban-for-shock-collars
Labels: Cruel-Training-Aids, Dog-Welfare, Dogs-in-the-news, IDOD
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Monday, July 07, 2008
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