Hi from St Leonards On Sea + BSL

Hello Everyone,
I have just joined and am enjoying having a look round.

I found the forum while looking for new´s of Bruce in Northern Ireland.
Like everyone else I am desperate to get him out of his nightmare and am heart broken for him.
I wish I could just go get him!!

Due to finding Bruce I have become aware of the BSL law´s and what has been happening to dog´s all over the world because of it.
I have a Bull mastiff and my daughter a, long legged, Staff (who is the image of Bruce).
I have been made to realise that BSL could affect me, my family and our dog´s.
I don´t know how I would cope if they were taken, let alone to then find them in the condition Bruce was found to be.

I have to help fight these law´s and am now going to do all I can.

it´s not just the Big or Pit Bull or fighting Dog´s this affect´s.

In the UK a Pit Bull Type could mean a Boxer x Staff and could be taken and locked away in secret kennel´s, having done nothing wrong but look like a Pit Bull Type, while you fight in court to prove he is not a dangerous dog.
A process that take´s many month´s often year´s.

I had no idea this happened in the UK and thought it was only dog´s that had attacked that were taken.
But even if a dog has attacked why must it take so long?

Why are they hidden away, guilty until proved innocent?
What´s wrong with regular visit´s?
Guilty or innocent all dog´s deserve to be visited.
Especially the guilty dog´s who are PTS in the end.

Bruce has had very few visit´s and it is clear, he is confused and so sad, he doe´s not understand what is happening and is emaciated to look at with a big festering wound on his muzzle and half his tail amputated.
His video´s show his bone´s sticking out, his wounded nose and his stump of tail.
He has lost the will to live, doe´s not deserve this and is proof this system cause´s pain, distress, suffering and is cruel.

On the USA´s list of 75 controlled breed´s
(Total list for the whole country - Not all dog´s apply to all State´s.)
is the very vicious and scary......Pug
The Pug fall´s into the category of a "Deep Chested, Wide Legged and Short nosed" controlled breed.

It´s getting ridiculous and one day could include all breed´s.
They all bite and can cause harm.

So Please, if you can do anything, however little it may seem, Please do it and let´s save our dog´s.

PUNISH THE DEED NOT THE BREED!!

Let´s bring in LAWS that control the idiot dog owner´s.

The young dog owner´s that have a hard dog to look cool and to use to fight.

Let´s control where a dog is walked and how.

Let´s have exercise area´s for dog´s to be off lead.

Let´s have compulsory micro chipping + licensing + training (for the dog´s and the dog owner´s)

Let´s have tougher sentence´s for the bad dog owner´s.

Let´s at least try.

What we have now is not working!!

How many thousand´s of pound´s of tax-payer´s money is wasted on keeping these dog´s while the Court´s decide their fate´s?

How many dog´s have suffered?

How many dog´s are suffering right now?

How many innocent dog´s have been put through this?

Why do they seem to take the wrong dog´s?

Look around and you´ll see the dog´s that should be taken, but never are and it won´t be the dog´s that look wrong it will be the owner´s on the end of the lead or not as they probably won´t have a lead.

PUNISH THE DEED NOT THE BREED!!

If we save just a few dog´s from suffering this nightmare it will be worth it!!

If we can´t change the system then at least we must make the system a much quicker process.

How do you prove your dog is safe?

If you provoke me enough I bite too!!

Sorry, didn´t mean to put all this in my Hello thread but I´v just had enough!!
There are enough cruelty case´s of animal´s that we can´t help.
To find the authorities are causing suffering to animal´s is to much and should be something we can stop.
Apparently because these dog´s are in the authorities care there is no-one who can stop this.
The world has gone mad!!

As you can probably tell I am a little bit passionate on the subject of animals.
I have had dog´s all my life and there are 5 in the family at present.
We all live in St Leonards On Sea.
I have 3 Children, 1 Grandson, a Grandchild due in Nov 09, and a Bull mastiff named Elvis Presley.
(My son named him when he was 5, when he heard the name he refused to call him anything else!!)

I´m looking forward to meeting you all and getting involved with this forum.
Bye for now

Su and Elvis x