Comments on: SPCA Recommend Breed Laws Be Evaluated

By: Barkley Barker

Barkley Barker — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 20:41:29 +0000

GRRRR WOOF!

By: Barkley Barker

Barkley Barker — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:05:21 +0000

Woof-woof!

By: Izzypop

Izzypop — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:45:01 +0000

As a proud owner of a restricted breed. I was required to hv my yard fenced in. By the wardens before getting my dog. The Dog has to be micro chipped and licensed . Don’t see why this can’t be done with the Pittbull. Put on the restricted list. Better control. If a dog is found not requiring these rules then hv it taken away. Fine the owner heavy. Destroy the dog if it is evaluated to be in adoptable.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:01:08 +0000

Sounds good on the surface but how does it get administered?

Insure a dog by weight? Breed? Mixed breeds? It gets real complicated real fast. All too often the attacks are by unlicensed dogs. Make dog licensing & insuring too expensive & even fewer will license their dogs. There comes a breaking point in paying Government taxes.

It always comes back to irresponsible owners. Sure, every so often a dog will get loose. I’ve got a Houdini in my backyard right now. She has broken the heaviest dog lead available a few times, slipped out of the collar & we come home to one guilty looking dog waiting for us.

It is the owners who let their dogs run free or don’t attempt to keep them under control who need to be dealt with. The automatic destroying of a captured dog has to stop. As long as the owner pays up front for the care of the dog held, the dog should be allowed to live. The going boarding rates should apply.

By: jrsmith

jrsmith — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:57:13 +0000

too little too late….

By: Lois Frederick

Lois Frederick — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:19:07 +0000

I support the ban.

By: Remember

Remember — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:38:51 +0000

You should avoid the sun this summer!

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:32:13 +0000

At first look that sounds rediculous, but this is Bermuda & things somehow are different here, so having to obtain a permit to own a dog, or have one registered to a dwelling, like cars, is not so far fetched.

If you have a drugs for supply record, no dog registered to you or your dwelling. Well, that might be a stretch. How about nothing over 50# or of one of these considered dangerous breeds or mixes of?

By: Great idea with a simple solution

Great idea with a simple solution — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:30:32 +0000

Make I need to get on the committee because I have good plan that allows owners to be responsible and also for government to also reap the benefits. I wonder who I can call?

By: smh

smh — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:30:13 +0000

Banned pitbulls and break ins Skyrocketed. .good work Govt.

By: Too Early

Too Early — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:25:29 +0000

We do not need their business, that type of crowd can stay in Californa. Im sure that we can find a group that would love an island with absolutely no pits and have the same effect, they’d flock to Bermuda

By: Family Man

Family Man — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:13:49 +0000

Every dog owner should carry $1mm in strict liability insurance per dog and have to present proof of insurance prior to annual re-licencing similar to re-licensing a car. Let the private insurance market determine which dogs are low risk and which dogs are high risk through their insurance premiums.

By: wahoo

wahoo — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:58:47 +0000

Perhaps instead of licensing the dog we should license the people.

By: serengeti

serengeti — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:53:07 +0000

Why not get rent-a-crowd to make up some handwritten signs and protest somewhere shouting for a referendum? I think Peggy has some spare time.