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Make dog owners criminally responsible for their dogs actions/behaviour

Submitted on Saturday 16th September 2023

Rejected on Wednesday 20th September 2023

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make dog owners criminally responsible for their dogs actions/behaviour

Petition Details

Make it so that all dog owners (regardless of breed) are criminally responsible for their dogs actions, e.g if a dog bites someone or another dog, the owner is charged with ABH/GBH or if the dog kills someone or another dog the owner is charged with murder and possession of a dangerous weapon

Additional Information

To help to make dog owners aware that thier dogs actions/behaviour will have repercussions for them too

Thus hopefully making owners more responsible for their dogs actions/behaviour


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for the same action:

Make dogs attacking other pets a specific criminal offence: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637398

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