Denmark
13 dog breeds are now banned, 12 more are lined up!
January 2013 - Denmark has one of the most strict dog breed bans in the world. 13 breeds were already banned and 12 more are lined up, making it a total of 25 breeds to be banned in the near future.
The discussion in Denmark went totally out of hand. While reports surfaced that despite the current ban, the number of dog bites have increased and the ban is therefore not working, politicians and media ignored the facts and called for more breeds to be banned. When vets are reluctant to euthanize healthy animals just because they are part of breed, politicians called upon people to practice "do-it-yourself" euthanasia. This message was corrected, yet it shows the sentiment that is present in the country and the horror dogs and dog owners in Denmark are living in.
Shakespeare onces wrote "something is rotten in the state of Denmark". Some hundreds of years later he is proven right. A lot of Danes are against the law and cry out in protest of this outrage. Help the Danes to stop this madness in their country, and let them return to the civilized world once more, states the following petition.
Over 400,000 dogs are in imminent danger of being killed!
Since the breed ban has been passed, over 400.000 dogs are in danger in Denmark. The Government has introduced reverse burden of proof, so the owners of Dogs that look like these breeds, now have to proof that they are not, which, as we all know, can not be done with DNA. If the families of these dogs can't lift the burden of proof - the dog will be euthanized.
Banned breeds
In Denmark, it is illegal to own, breed, or import the following breeds and/or cross-breeds of dogs:
For dogs bought before 17 March 2010 the legislation does not apply, but there are very strict rules to observe.
For further information, please contact The Ministry of Justice (Justitsministeriet):
For dogs bought before 17 March 2010 the legislation does not apply, but there are very strict rules to observe.
For further information, please contact The Ministry of Justice (Justitsministeriet):
Fido died innocent March 15, 2013
He is but one of 1,800 victims since Denmark's breed ban
came into effect on July 1, 2010
Fido had run away from home, but had done absolutely nothing to anybody during that little stunt. When the police talked to the owner, the lady did the mistake to tell them that he was part American Stafford. This mistake got Fido killed - totally innocent - given that a cross with American Stafford is illegal under the Dogs Act.
Two judges in the Danish Kennel Club has since Fido's stunt, based on photos and a visit to the dog, said that they do not see any sign that the dog is an American Stafford mix.
But this is, according to the police, not a satisfactory explanation of Fido's origin. Fido's family had the opportunity to say "good bye" to their beloved dog before they killed him.
Fido died March 15, 2013. He had done nothing wrong. He had never hurt anyone.
DENMARK:
Stop judging and ultimately killing these dogs
based on your ignorance and look at the facts!
The following text is taken from an article from July 25, 2011, taken from the following website and will explain:
Denmark Breed Ban is failing (and why the solution is not more banning)
Last week, an organization in Denmark called "Fair Dog" released a report detailing some of the failures of the Breed Ban in Denmark.
If you recall, on July 1 of 2010, Denmark banned 13 breds of dogs, including the pit bull terrier, Tosa Inu, American Staffordshire Terrier, Fila Brasileiro, Dogo Argentino, American Bulldog, Boerboel, Kangal, 3 breeds of Ovtcharkas, Tornjak and Sarplanina.
In the Fair Dog report, they accumulated dog bite numbers for the 12 months prior to the ban and for the 12 months post the ban -- by accumulating data from veterinary offices, the internet and police numbers. While they acknowledge the data is more of a collection of facts than truly statistical, the numbers do give some insight into the failings of the National Breed Ban.
The report focuses on 464 bite episodes from every region of the country, and even breaks down the bites from dog vs human, dog vs dog, dog vs other animal and fatal attack.
Based on their data, the number of dog bites on humans went from 67 in the 12 months prior to the ban to 107 in the 12 months after the ban (a 60% increase), dog bites on other dogs from 75 to 117 (a 56% increase), dog bites on other animals 21 to 24 (14% increase) and fatal attacks from 23 to 30 (30% increase)*. Total dog bites went from 186 to 278 -- a 49% increase.
*The study doesn't specifically mention what constitutes a 'fatality' -- my assumption is that a fatality includes human and other animal deaths and not just human deaths -- as 30 human fatalities in a country of just over 5 million people would be a ridiculously high number -- as 30 is a high number of fatalities per year in the U.S. where we have a population of over 300 million people.
Of the bite incidents, 6.5% of all bites in the 12 months prior to the ban were from the banned breeds, this number dropped to 4.3% in the 12 months after the ban as bites from non-banned breeds increased.
The top biting dogs have changed little from before the ban vs after. Post the ban, the top biting dogs are Schaefer (German Shepherds -- who were #1 before the ban), Rottweilers and Bladinghundes (which is the Danish term for mixed breeds).
The Danish Government has responded to the poor first year of the ban, not by acknowledging the failure of targeting breeds vs targeting careless owners, but by discussion adding another 12 breeds to the banned list.
That too, will fail.
The report also details other areas in which breed bans have failed, including detailing information from Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Scotland and the UK. Continuing to
You can read the entire report here (much of it is in Danish but Google Translate can help you muddle through it). Some pieces are in English.
The problem with dogs is not dogs. It is people. And laws that continue to focus on dogs and not on the owners are destined to fail because they are targeting the wrong end of the leash. This has been true throughout the world -- and study after study proves it.
Focusing on responsible dog ownership is the solution, not targeting dogs based on their shape.
Take action - sign the petitions!
Please sign the petition: Tell Denmark to stop banning dog breeds at change.org
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and please sign also the petition: Repeal the Breed Ban in Denmark at GoPetition
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