March 5, 2013Comments are closed.dogs, Victorian Dog Laws
Image – The Monash Weekly Kathy is one of the so-called ‘evil pit bull owners’ caught up in Victoria’s BSL laws. Please read this article and understand that many, many, many people, of all walks of life, own dogs who happen to meet the visual criteria for what Victorian legislation now says a ‘pit bull’ […]
Continue readingMarch 1, 2013Comments are closed.dogs, Victorian Dog Laws
A new iphone app by the Department Of Primary Industries Victoria, Vic BARK, helps local council officers condemn family pets to impoundment and death. Super. Vic BARK By Department Of Primary Industries View More By This Developer Thanks to Who’s The Bully? and Help Save the Pitbulls in Australia for the tip. .
Continue readingFebruary 13, 2013Comments are closed.dogs, Lost Dogs Home, Victorian Dog Laws
Chevy’s relieved to be back home after four months of stressful detention In can be nearly impossible to get animal welfare and dog trainers to agree on anything. However, after the death of Ayen Chol, animal experts came forward to advise the Victorian government on problems with their proposed, knee-jerk legislation targeting ‘pit bulls’. Astoundingly […]
Continue readingJanuary 27, 2013Comments are closed.dogs, Victorian Dog Laws
Victorian Premier Ted Ballieu says laws against dangerous dogs should be toughened in Victoria It’s like they’ve slipped into another realm of reality… The Victorian government could again toughen laws against dangerous dogs, after a court overturned the decision to put down two animals deemed to be pit bull terriers. ….. The Supreme Court of […]
Continue readingJanuary 27, 2013Comments are closed.dogs, Lost Dogs Home, RSPCA, Victorian Dog Laws
Peter Walsh on Victoria’s 7.30 Report March 2012 There’s not much you can get dog behaviorists, dog trainers and vets to agree on. But the majority do agree that you can’t reliably tell the breed of a dog by the way it looks. And now, the Supreme Court agrees too; The Supreme Court has dealt […]
Continue readingJanuary 14, 2013Comments are closed.dogs, Victorian Dog Laws
Why should we care about purebred dogs? According to DOGS Victoria, it’s because dogs with a mixed breed heritage have an unpredictable temperament; “… neither the appearance nor characteristics of mixed breed dogs are predictable, nor can they be perpetuated…. The choice of a purebred dog permits the prospective dog owner to select the size, […]
Continue readingAugust 25, 2012Comments are closed.dogs, Victorian Dog Laws
Victorian council rangers are finding people who’ve had their dog seized under new dog laws are (inconveniently) finding a voice on Facebook; Council workers enforcing Victoria’s dangerous dog legislation are being threatened by pet owners on social media websites. Victorian police are investigating a number of complaints made by the council law officers in Melbourne’s […]
Continue readingAugust 24, 2012Comments are closed.dogs, Victorian Dog Laws
From ABC Victoria’s 7:30 Report tonight; Peter Walsh ~ So we’ve now been talking to Dogs Victoria, and Dogs Victoria are going to make available a panel of ‘breed experts’ and people scattered around Victoria who can assist councils in interpreting the Restricted Breed Standard, so that they make a ruling on a dog, there […]
Continue readingAugust 21, 2012Comments are closed.dogs, Victorian Dog Laws
On the eve of the Victorian ‘pit bull’ amnesty ending on the 29th September 2011, the owner of a dog named Butch visited the Ballarat City Council offices to register her dog. She completed an application form, but found she was short on cash and couldn’t pay the registration fee. She told staff she would […]
Continue readingAugust 14, 2012Comments are closed.dogs, Lost Dogs Home, Victorian Dog Laws
From 30th September last year, Victoria became home to some of the most draconian legislation in the country. It allowed animal management officers to seize and kill unregistered dogs they deem to be ‘pit bulls’ or ‘of pit bull type’, kill dogs on site without impounding them, kill dogs after impoundment with no minimum impoundment […]
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