For the animals, when being kind can be cruel!

There has been a horrifying rise in the number of dogs being breed dangerously as weapons, urban accessories, and a symbol of power. Walking through any council estate in the country, at anytime of the day and you will see young men, and women hanging around with scary monster looking dogs at the ready.

However, the majority of dogs in the country, and some similar breeds to those urban weapons, are family dogs and gentle pets, owned by responsible individuals, who pick after them, care for and love them. As a dog lover myself, and someone who grow up with dogs, of different types, all my life, I think and truly believe that dogs are like people. They are never born dangerous but trained, reared and conditioned to become treacherous. To sweepingly, label a breed of dogs and sentence it to extinction is cruel and unnatural, not to mention prejudice.

There is no question to my mind that the public must feel safe, and of course stories of horrific attacks does not fill us with confidence – but any legislation should be directed towards the bad irresponsible breeding and ownership not the animal, who is also a victim in this occasion. Any laws passed should be directed at owners, breeders and trainers of such dogs – the individual who creates a “dangerous dog” should be hold accountable and made to bear the full brunt in any new legislation, whether financially, custodialy [if the prisons are too full then sent them off to some remote island similar to Siberia] or both, but the law must not penalise the animal!

On another matter, Mary Bale, the woman who was caught on CCTV dumping a cat in a wheelie bin, has issued a statement profusely apologising for her action and asking not to be hated for her moment of madness. I agree with her in that no one, regardless, deserves to be hated. But I still wonder, how mad is she and would she have expressed any remorse had she not been caught on camera?