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christianSpaceman in reply to @Leshaches

According to the Guardian, apparently the original legislation was that banned dogs were put down:

Under the original legislation, banned dogs had to be destroyed, and courts did not have any discretion in cases where owners were arguing that their dogs had no history of violent behaviour. That led to a spate of newspaper stories about affectionate family pets supposedly being put down without justification.

Subsequently the act was amended to give the courts some discretion, and the legislation is now viewed more favourably.

Don't know obviously the extent of that discretion

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Leshaches in reply to @christianSpaceman

We were in Wales this summer and went to a ruined cathedral with a pub and icecream shop adjacent. There was a pit bull lovers meet up, possibly Staffies too. They had specially made t-shirts and walked about the pub garden and road with half of their dogs on leads, no muzzles.

It’s curious how owners’ empathy extends to their dog’s possible feelings about being leashed and muzzled, but not to the few families with small kids who’d prefer that large dogs be kept on leads, as required by the landowner.

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dancing james in reply to @Leshaches

What about children should be leashed and masked?

amazingly there are many child hannibal lecter costumes as a quick google search showed me!

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