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<blockquote data-quote="Longlowdog" data-source="post: 3740958" data-attributes="member: 395"><p>It is a right to own a dog, as it is a cat or a horse. As a shepherd is it your right to own a working dog or as P.E.T.A would suggest are you subjugating a canine that should be running free or not even exist in their Utopian world of fluffy animals living without the interference of the hand of man? I have chosen an extreme view I admit but an extreme view is just a forceful opinion as is yours. As has been repeatedly stated, the laws are there to protect livestock, all that is missing is the will and possibly the funding for rural issues to enforce them. I'm sure 95% of police officers or their superiors couldn't pick a quarter of a million quid Texel tup from a field of my Beltex ewes, and thus require education to make them aware of the fiscal and emotional consequences of a dog attack on sheep. Officers can, without training empathise with the victims of more common crime as it is part of human nature. Rural issues, dog attacks, poaching, coursing, etc require training and understanding to deal them. Wildlife Crime Officers receive some but even they are often ignorant of the most basic aspects of rural life. </p><p> I'm sure every constabulary would love to have an exemplary record of dealing with rural crime but when the funds don't let them have the man power for urban crime clearance against bleeding human victims then we will take a back seat. To ban the old man who walks his only companion ( his only reason to rise in the morning and his last thought at night) through the park where I work from owning a dog because some moron, (against the law) allowed his dog to attack sheep is ludicrous.</p><p> P.s, the old man's dog is called Moss. I speak to him and Moss every day. It gives me pleasure, it makes him smile and the world seems a better place for having both of them in it. Think on before you restrict dogs to the privileged few.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Longlowdog, post: 3740958, member: 395"] It is a right to own a dog, as it is a cat or a horse. As a shepherd is it your right to own a working dog or as P.E.T.A would suggest are you subjugating a canine that should be running free or not even exist in their Utopian world of fluffy animals living without the interference of the hand of man? I have chosen an extreme view I admit but an extreme view is just a forceful opinion as is yours. As has been repeatedly stated, the laws are there to protect livestock, all that is missing is the will and possibly the funding for rural issues to enforce them. I'm sure 95% of police officers or their superiors couldn't pick a quarter of a million quid Texel tup from a field of my Beltex ewes, and thus require education to make them aware of the fiscal and emotional consequences of a dog attack on sheep. Officers can, without training empathise with the victims of more common crime as it is part of human nature. Rural issues, dog attacks, poaching, coursing, etc require training and understanding to deal them. Wildlife Crime Officers receive some but even they are often ignorant of the most basic aspects of rural life. I'm sure every constabulary would love to have an exemplary record of dealing with rural crime but when the funds don't let them have the man power for urban crime clearance against bleeding human victims then we will take a back seat. To ban the old man who walks his only companion ( his only reason to rise in the morning and his last thought at night) through the park where I work from owning a dog because some moron, (against the law) allowed his dog to attack sheep is ludicrous. P.s, the old man's dog is called Moss. I speak to him and Moss every day. It gives me pleasure, it makes him smile and the world seems a better place for having both of them in it. Think on before you restrict dogs to the privileged few. [/QUOTE]
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