Animal Welfare Bill

One could drive a coach and horses through the regulations on law enforcement by taking a four-year-old dog to the vet and saying, ““I’m going to use this dog to protect my scrapyard. Keeping trespassers out is law enforcement, so can you dock its tail?”” Because proposed subsection (4) of the new clause does not say that the dog must be used predominantly as a guard dog, after the scrapyard owner has used the dog for two days he can sell it to a man in a pub as a docked dog and escape scot-free.