This Canine Law is an Ass!

So yet again responsible dog owner have to cough up and support a system where only the RSPCA will benefit. The newspapers are full of the news that from Monday 23rd April all litters of puppies will have to be micro chipped before they are sold to new homes. Already the likes of the Daily Mail are showing images of dangerous dogs snarling and spitting ready to pounce and devour small children. How will chipping a little puppy stop this?

Will the kind of people who breed indiscriminately and advertise in newsagents windows bother to micro chip their puppies?
Will the people breeding dogs for fighting micro chip their puppies?
Will the puppy farmers micro chip the puppies they breed?
Will Joe Public who doesn't read canine publications or give a toss about canine welfare bother to micro chip the puppies he sells when all he wants to do is raise a few thousand pounds?

None of the above tend to health test or provide after care to the puppies they breed. They are damn sure not going to micro chip a puppy.

Yet again it will be decent caring dog owners and breeders who follow the law. The same people who are taking the flack from charities such as the RSPCA as being the ones who breed unhealthy dogs. These are the ones who will be stumping up £35 to line the pockets of vets and charities who jump on the chipping bandwagon.

The law is an ass and this time it has gone a step too far. The only people to profit from this expensive waste of time is the RSPCA who will receive a large slice of the financial pie provided to control this exercise.

I will never have a dog of mine micro chipped. I will never purchase a puppy with a micro chip in it's tiny body. I'm happy to sign any document to absolve the breeder I purchase from of any responsibility but I will never agree to archaic rules pushed through government by a charity most of the canine world hates.

What will the RSPCA do if they find a puppy that has not been micro chipped? Will they take a bolt gun to it as they did those ten German Sheherd dogs so cruelly destroyed? They cannot turn out to many calls sent to their centres at the moment let alone police a law such as this.

I've been waiting for over one month to hear about a case that was lodged with the above charity. An officer rang my phone and left a message - did dhe leave a number? No! Dialing 1471 the number was hidden. I had to wait for her to ring again. A week later she rang and the same occured. It's such a shame that with the millions of pounds this charity has in its coffers it cannot teach employees how to make a phone call isn't it?

I've been invited onto Radio Five Live tonight at 10.15 this evening to discuss my views and will be following this latest law against decent dog owners with interest.

Saving a dog's life

Do you know how to administer CPR to your dog if he should collapse? To be honest I didn't until I spotted the following YouTube film circulated via a friend in Polish Lowland Sheepdogs.

Perhaps it is something that should be taught at dog training classes?

Curiosity led me back to YouTube to see if there were any other films that could help us learn how to save a dog's life. The following footage of a Boxer dog being resuscitated is amazing and yes I shed a tear or two as I watched it.

This is so wrong!

At a time when there is so much anti dog news in the media many of us are fighting to show that pedigree dogs are healthy and not the mutants they are perceived to be by ex RSPCA vets and BBC television producers.
We are trying to educate the public that dogs are not bred to be carried in handbags or used as toys and fashion accessories.

So what was happening only streets away from where I lived this past weekend? No other that a group of silly people trimming and spraying dogs a multitude of colours to compete for British Dog Creative Stylist of the Year. The dogs, mainly poodles stood for hours on grooming tables while they were teased into designs such a My Little Pony, Bertie Bassett and a Welsh Dragon.

What impression does this give the anti dog brigade? Surely it is bordering on cruelty? I don't think the poor dogs were taken outside for exercise all day as they were most certainly not noticed on nearby parkland or recreation areas by myself or other dog walking friends.

It seems this is an American past time - it had to be didn't it! No sensible Brit would be so cruel, would they?

The event organised by a Gravesend dog groomer was won by a a dog that was trimmed, tweaked, sprayed, styled and adorned to look like a Welsh Dragon. Lets hope he got the chance to breathe flames over the organiser of such a cruel and silly event. Dog groomers should stick to bathing and blow drying dogs and leave the food colouring for baking cakes.

Here is the link to the 'news story' in the Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048225/Dog-Creative-Stylist-Year-hits-Britain-show.html