Dogs, dogs, dogs.

There is new legislation going through the Irish Parliament, The Dail, next week. It involves dog breeding and I suppose dog control within that jurisdiction. Should we as a society not re-consider our attitude to animals generally? My mum, God rest her, brought the pigs into our house during stormy weather. The piglets slept at the bottom of my big sisters bed. (I was only 8 months old). The pigs slept at the bottom of my parents bed. That was in the 1930's and the 1940's. We don't allow the pigs to sleep in our houses any more. It was an old fashioned and very un-hygienic thing to do.

People in the UK, England, British Isles, whatever, still keep animals in their homes, along with and very close to thier children. Cats, dogs, pet shop animals. Why have no experts from the health system within England, Scotland, N. Ireland, Wales or the Republic of Ireland ever come out openly to warn the populations of those countries about the dangers of close contact from a living being that is not human?

 

Besides the dangers of disease from dogs and dog poo there is now also huge dangers from dangerous dogs which has spiralled out of control. Some dogs kept by criminal elements and social misfits are more dangerous than lions and tigers and are trained to attack humans or other animals. Attacks by dogs are almost commonplace now in England, and deaths and serious injury has risen dramatically. Legislation is needed in Ireland urgently in Ireland to control dangerous dogs urgently.