future banned dog breeds

[iheartruby]

Following on from rox1981, re cane corso dogs....what if you got one and then, say, in 3 years they are banned? does the law allow that they just take them off you no questions asked? and if so, do they get destroyed?

[Noweia]

Dogs owned before the ban would not have to be destroyed - but it is likely the owners would require a special permit stating that they got their pet before the ban was imposed. Then after that pet died, they would not be allowed to get a new one of the banned breed.

[chicklin]

Pit bull terriers were taken off their owners when they were banned so beware...the government can pretty much do as they fancy - and they make very ill-informed decisions sometimes......no - make that 'a lot of the time'...

[kita1]

When the law came in regarding pit bulls anyone owning one was given the choice of handing them in to be destroyed or they could put them on a register, having them microchipped, neutered and having them muzzled/on a lead in a public place.

Only dogs that had bitten/were unregistered were taken from their owners. They then had to go to court and it was up to the magistrate to order them to be destroyed.

Banned breeds were not allowed to change ownership (so you could not acquire one after the law came in).

The same applied to any 'breeds' that came under the banning law.

Presumably IF any other breeds were added in future then they would follow the same procedure.

[chicklin]

Kita - it wasn't only unregistered pit bulls or ones that had bitten that were taken away from their owners - what about the one who's owner took off its muzzle to allow it to be sick? ...or the one who was loose and without a muzzle inside its owners car?....the Authorities decided to class inside a car as 'a public place'...somewhere the dog should be muzzled in.....so that dog was also taken off its owners.
The Government move the goalposts as and when it suits them.

[danchip]

i find it very hard to believe that the RSPCA would go and asses a dogs temperament, a friend of mine had an american pitbull who was the softest most docile dog you could ever find and then one day it flipped and savagely attacked a horse! The vet and polce officer who attended the incident informed everyone that these sort of dogs are prone to do that and thats what makes them particularly dangerous