Submitted on Sunday 3rd July 2016
Rejected on Friday 15th July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce a law that requires owners to have dogs on leads around livestock
The Protection of Livestock Act states that if a dog worries sheep the person in charge of the dog is guilty of an offence; we want this to go further and make it an offence to have a dog off the lead around livestock as once an attack has occurred it is near impossible to trace the culprit.
In 2015 there were 1,069 incidents attacks on livestock by dogs in the UK a 54% increase in 4 years, each year hundreds of sheep are destroyed due to damage caused by dog worrying and 2016 survey found that this puts an incredible stress on the sheep, an emotional strain on farmers as well as the financial loss of which there is no compensation.
Survey results: http://www.nationalsheep.org.uk/dog-owners/sheep-worrying/2462/sheep-worrying-survey-results/
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