Thread: AVA Draft Policy - Importing dogs - Behaviour considerations

[=Mark;17484]If exceptions are to be made, e.g. for guard dogs, efence dogs and drug detecting dogs, then special conditions should apply to the release of those animals into Australian territories and these animals should be identified as dangerous individuals, in keeping with local state or territory laws.

This to me means, any working line breed, then needs to be classed as a dangerous dog! AVA need to wake up to themselves here.. If I want to import a dog that is from working lines.. why should my dog be automatically classified as a dangerous dog? What happens to ALL the working line breeds in Australia now.. Is the AVA going to have all of them reclassified as dangerous dogs!

Fuck me..what an absolute joke this whole proposal is! Think I'll stick to an aggressive Shih Tzu... Seems they are fine..yet in my profession I come across more Shih Tzus with aggression problems than any working breed![/]

Hi Mark,

The difference with the Shih Tzus is that they are more managable dragging them along on a retractor lead whilst displaying high levels of aggresssion and hostilty which goes unnoticed. The same level of behaviour from a working breed would have an on looker calling the police to have the dog shot on the spot. The same applies correcting aggression responses from a working breed is a case of necessity from a handler perspective where the small dog given the ease of physical management, the aggression issues are often never addressed or in the complete irresponsible cases considered cute???.

Cheers
Nev

After much consideration, i don't really know what the regular folks can do, convincing a vet certain breeds are no different to any other all have a set of traits, standards etc is usually like talking to a brick wall, especially when we consider that, as Mark earlier pointed out somewhere that perhaps a licensing option for certain breeds did hold merit.....which i agree on....

Breeds are different obviously but something should be done to prevent this silliness but what?.......

Hi,
Thanks for this important post. What bureaucratic meddling in an arena where their knowledge, experience and performance
is grossly misguided and ill informed.

Hope We are able to unite in mass to quash this inappropriate, ill conceived proposal.

Cheers,
Owen Baxter