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[pet lover]

I just read a days old article in the online Joongang Ilbo. According to it, a bill on animal protection has been passed. I read it with great happiness as this is something that should have been done a long time ago. I made a mental note that I'd have to ask the vet where I needed to go to register my dogs and buy the ID tags. Then I read the second to last sentence:

[red dog]

Thanks for posting this article. It will be interesting to see what the animal protection groups think.

[Col.Brandon]

Now if only they can find a way to keep the damn things quiet.

[VanIslander]

pet lover, aren't you on a plane soon to move to America?

[JongnoGuru]

(psst! VanMan -- ixnay on oyfriendbay.)

[mack the knife]

If someone, anyone, attempts to force me to muzzle my dog I will shove my foot so far up their ass they will be dining on their own excrement for years.

[happeningthang]

[pet lover]

People who have their dogs on leashes should not have to muzzle their dogs unless the dogs are ultra-aggressive and/or the owner can't control them.

It's positively laughable to think that the government wants me to muzzle my 2 kilo Maltese who wags her entire body at the sight of any human that walks by.

happeningthang, I'd actually be for restraining small children first. Parents don't seem to be able to restrain them from trying to pluck the eyes out of small dogs or pulling their ears or tails off, etc. Although I'm glad that my dogs show admirable restraint, I wouldn't blame them if they DID bite such idiots, be they children or adults. It's sad that even when your dogs are leashed, you can't keep stupid people off of them.

[happeningthang]

Do they make muzzles in little-lap-dog size??

I wouldn't worry - I've never seen anyone using muzzles on their dogs as yet, and I'm sure little fluff dogs are going to be excluded from this. It'll be yet another law that's widely disregarded, but is there for prosecution when someone's dog goes postal.

PS

By the way, I love dogs and have had a dog as a pet throughout my life. Still, there are those sensationalised instances of baby maulings by rottweilers, pit bulls and the like... I think that this law is going to be aimed at dogs of this size. I was bitten seriously by a dog as a kid. I was petting the dog at the time. Nothing objectionable there. That dog got a bullet, and I think that's how it should be. Kids first dogs second.

[pet lover]

That's what I'm hoping for: that it's a law like "Don't speed." Or, "Don't drive while drunk."

[jinju]

pets should be made illegal. Animals belong in 4 places:

the wild
farms
zoos
on a plate as food

[pet lover]

And I know a certain part of your body where I'd like to firmly jam my foot.

[jinju]

[pet lover]

*beep* you.

[joyfulgirl]

muzzling dogs seems a little extreme and silly. i'm sure this'll be one of those 'laws' that is never enforced.