Dangerous Dogs Act (DDA) 1991

News -12th August 2009

Happy 18th Birthday:

Happy Anniversary to the Dangerous Dogs Act! We've had eighteen years of slaughtering innocent dogs, their injustice cries out from their unmarked graves.

Eighteen long years of killing puppies, oldies, rescue dogs, pet dogs who all measured up and were held down whilst their lives were drained away.

Eighteen years of owners begging in court for their dogs life to to be spared, on their knees, begging and in tears.

Eighteen years of dogs seized on grasping poles cut into their necks as they are dragged from their family bed whilst owners are pinned down and children scream for their pets on a dawn raid.

Eighteen years of pets who walk the street at night, unable to join in and have much of a life and never able to visit a vet from fear of seizure.

Eighteen years of persecuted dogs who have died suddenly in a kennels from illness or injury on death row.

Eighteen years of dogs suffering from the crushing boredom of a concrete cell or suffering appalling physically whilst waiting to die held in isolation from their families.

Eighteen years of helpless dogs who have reached a rescue & should now be safe in a sanctuary-being 'picked out' due to appearance on the breed identification lottery, taken to a room, shaved and injected to be killed under the law whilst their carers look on and choke back the anger & tears as they are unable to save them.

Eighteen years of long drawn out, expensive court hearings where the length of leg, head shape and angle of bone determines whether a dog is dangerous.

Eighteen years of being Guilty until proven Innocent.

Eighteen years of media hype and bullshit dished out weekly where dogs get blamed and killed for people's mistakes and illegal activities.

Eighteen years of myth and lies surrounding the American Pit Bull Terrier, still being delivered to those stupid enough to lap it up as they know nothing about dogs and are being fed the 'devil dog' propaganda which helps keep the flawed law where it is.

Today marks the day when the canine genocide, still with us and in full force, began.

Please take a look at the video and please, please, if you haven’t already done so, write to your own Member of Parliament - the fight is in Westminster as that is where we can repeal BSL if enough people stand up against it.

Don’t give up or we may well have another eighteen years of needless killing of innocent dogs under a law designed to promote death.

Eighteen years of the Dangerous Dogs Act from DDA Watch:

18 years ago today the Dangerous Dogs Act was passed through Parliament. The Bill was pushed through the commons in just one day . It then proceeded to the Lords, back to the Commons and received Royal Assent in less than two months from start to finish. A little over two weeks from Royal assent, on the 12th August 1991, the Dangerous Dogs Act came into force.

To give some idea of just how quickly this bill was rushed in, the most recent equivalent is a mere amendment rather than a new bill, currently being suggested by Angela Smith MP. This received its first reading in the commons on the 1st June 2009. Its second reading will not be until October 16th 2009, more time than it took to bring in the draconian DDA.

So here we are 18 years later. Dog attacks are all but non existent, dog fighting has been eradicated as there are no more pit bull type dogs around and all is well with the world. … right? Of course not but it seems unlike most of us, Defra is still in the half conscious slumber its been in for the last 18 years, seemingly, neither caring nor even commenting on its bizarre instance to continue with a piece of legislation that has failed in the most horrific way.

16 years after the act came into force a child died from injuries sustained during an attack from a “pit bull type”. The law failed to protect her too. Now Defra trot out the same phrases about the need for enforcement, the systematic rounding up of dogs who measure up in inches regardless of the temperament of the dog.

Defra and Co seem to think we are stupid.

We have had four fatalities in recent years and the link isn’t the breed or cross of the dog, it’s the ownership. Each and every time an error was made, a human error. Our response to that error is to to round up and kill the dog. We are human, we make mistakes but the one thing that is meant to make us the most superior species is our ability to process that error and learn from it. Defra refuse to do this.

The Met police are hitting many festivals and carnivals in London again this year. They are likely to seize over 1000 dogs by the end of this year. It's looking to cost around 2 million pounds of tax payers money. They aren’t the only ones doing the killing. Dogs are dying in the care of those who swore to protect, hidden behind a wall of silence. All because of a law that does not work, can never work and the authorities and other organisations refusal to do anything about it.

Unless you, the reader, speak up, we can look forward to another 18 years.

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