With Halloween just around the corner, planning outfits and stocking up on sweets for trick-or-treaters are not the only things you need to be planning ahead for. Veternary surgeon Dr Linda Simon and behaviourist Dr Emma Scales-Theobald, from have shared six pieces of advice for keeping your dogs and trick-or-treaters safe this Halloween. Ensure all […]
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Organisations pen open letter concerning the Dangerous Dogs Act
The Dangerous Dogs Act does not work. Over 30 years after it was introduced, banning the ownership of four breeds and types deemed ‘dangerous’, for no reason other than their looks and the public is no safer. Experts across the board have long cast doubt over the effectiveness of Breed Specific Legislation, including a recent report which […]
Kent man receives animal ban for neglecting dogs and pups –
A man from Ditton, Aylesford, Kent, has been sentenced to a lifetime ban from keeping animals and a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to Animal Welfare Act offences relating to eight dogs and puppies. In an RSPCA prosecution, them man was found to have caused unnecessary suffering to an emaciated lurcher as well as […]
Couple disqualified from keeping dogs for cropping pets’ ears
Bjorn A couple from Essex, Rory Canny and Sophie Louise Snell, have both been disqualified from keeping dogs for their involvement in the cropping of their dogs’ ears. The RSPCA launched an investigation after reports of the cropped ear dogs. A warrant was executed at a property in Clacton, where investigators found a number of […]
Join Dogs Trust’s fireworks survey this New Year’s Eve
Dogs Trust, along with the University of Salford, are calling on members of the public – both dog owners and non-dog owners – to take part to a “ground-breaking study” into how The research will aim to “provide an in-depth understanding of the relationship between dog behaviour and features of fireworks, as well as the […]