[Margaret Pilkington]

Neil, it is all well and good talking about all dogs being chipped and licensed, but these regulations would be useless if not adequately policed........and they would not be policed because that would cost money.
For every irresponsible dog owner there are a hundred who are responsible and will do the right thing(by that I mean, have their dog on a lead, pick up after their dog,not allow their dog to roam, muzzle their dog if necessary).
The ones who don't do this are probably those who keep dogs to intimidate others, use their dogs a s a status symbol.
There are no bad dogs......only bad owners.