A call to include more dangerous dogs in restricted breed legislation is being made by WA Local Government Association president Troy Pickard.
… he said the State Government could also look at adding Boerboel, a large mastiff breed from South Africa, to the list of restricted breeds.
He rejected a view by the RSPCA that a dog’s behaviour was shaped by its upbringing and training rather than its breed.
“There are dogs that have it in their DNA to kill and it’s their breeding, that’s their gene pool,” he said. (ref)
What could be the driver behind adding a rarely seen purebred to the ‘dangerous’ dog list? (According to the Boerboel Australia website there are only twelve breeders nationally, and just two in WA).
Only that these new laws apply to purebred AND crossbreed dogs.
Simply banning ‘pit bull type’ dogs doesn’t give Councils enough powers against all the mastiffy, araby and staffy blends they desire to target.
Rather than give up on the failed premise of breed specific laws, they instead are looking to expand the criteria to include pretty much any dog that looks any way.
(Ironically, making their breed specific laws so general as to absolutely make breed irrelevant in likely behaviours).
Given currently there is no official ‘visual identification’ process to reference in id’ing dogs. If they say it’s a pit bull, then it’s a pit bull. Henceforth if they say it’s a Boerboel, it’s a Boerboel.
How totally absurd.
I would laugh out loud if this wasn’t so sad! This is like racism, but happening across species. How odd!
I have a boerboel cross as a member of our family. Her mum was a boerboelxdane and her dad was a bull mastiffxridgeback. I guess Troy would really be scared of my dog then.
Except he wouldn’t.
She is approx 54kg of solid butter and a very valued member of our family! It’s the same old arguments time and time again, usually made by people that don’t understand the true nature of human-pet relationships.Fix the so-called owners that mistreat their animals and don’t show them the respect they deserve, not the dog.
What is happening in Australia? I know people oversea who said once their dream was to move to Australia but not know with the BSL Laws. I take it that the people who make these rules grew up without animals. I have grown up with all different breeds and pig hunting dogs and never had a problem. You are killing, murdering innocent dogs for what?
I am afraid that BSL is a “catch cry” that has caught on but what these people dont realise that it is also being recinded in most countrys and counties after some upto 10 years and why because they just dont work. But we have this being pushed by the WALGA who is the government and it has not gone to workshop or review by the public which it should have and we need to demand this is a democratic society not a dictatorship.