there is a prograam on Virgin 1 tonight @ 9pm called Death Row Dogs the tv guide says,

Brand new documentary special examining the hot political issue of dangerous dogs. After a spate of dog attacks on children in the last two decades, laws have been passed banning the ownership of certain types of dogs in the UK. This programme meets dog lovers nationwide who are facing a battle to save their pets from destruction for crimes they may or may not have been committed.

i will be watching and crying.

Did anyone watch it?

I met Roger Mugford at Crufts - as he had a poster for this program on his stand. Roger is a lovely bloke and I take my hat off to him as he feels for animal welfare and actually does something about it. So many people make lots of money out of pets and yet just close their eyes to any issues surrounding it.

Roger had leaflets of dogs that had been photographed - that were normal family pets - seized for not doing anything wrong at all. These dogs are held in kennels where no human is allowed to go in with them because they are 'susected dangerous dogs' and they can be there for months or even years as the sad story said tonight of a boxer cross held until it died - 14 years after it was taken into custody. How horrific for a pet.
The dogs are not ever walked or taken out of the kennels and they are usually cleaned down by a jet wash blast with cold water to clean the kennels out each day. He had photos of dogs that had eaten their own tails due to stress and boredom and others that were skeletons in their kennels - this is AFTER they have been taken into custody by the police or the councils. It was horrific. Plus it said on the program tonight that these dogs cost the tax payer on average £5k a year per dog to be held, (thats £100 per week), so someone is making money out of jet washing a kennel and throwing some feed in - when the dogs are like this.

This issue should be brought out into the open and shouted from the tree tops. Don't think it wont happen to you because the law can change and any rule can be brought out for any dog to be classed as 'dangerous'. Its not just something that happens to other people. Your pet could be seized and you will never be told where it is, and may never see it again.

Where the media is linking many dog attacks on children and people - and thinking that this ridiculous law can stop that problem is ludicrous. They should be getting the people that starve these dogs and make them into fighting agressive dogs, and also confiscating dogs that are actually dangerous - not just because they 'could' be dangerous.
Cars are dangerous and cause horrific injuries to all who have crashes in them - I can't see them banning us all from driving above 30 miles an hour just in case.

Lunatics and asylum spring to mind.

i watched it and thought it was awful i think that for people to just be able to look at dog and say 'pitbull' is wrong i saw alot of staffie X when they said pitbu.ll which i thought was wrong as people who dont know dogs that well and watched it will now think that anything staffie looking is a pitbull. i really felt for the liverpool bloke but as they said he doent normally let the dog off until no one was there and they were in the park.