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The KC didn't support BSL they obstained fom it.
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That's an image they'd like people to believe.
I've been covering BSL issues for many years. Have reported on literally hundreds of dog attack stories, given comment to the media on BSL etc. It is a personal interest of mine. I can tell you honestly, the KC d
id support Lord Baker's 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act.
The bad laws we have now were not dreamed up by DEFRA. They were created by Lord Baker and his Tory Government and they were supported by the Kennel Club I'm afraid. I can appreciate why you would think otherwise as the Kennel Club have spent many years publicly deriding BSL whilst failing to mention that they supported its introduction. I would urge you to read this:
Scottish Dog Owners Have Been Sold Out Over new Dangerous Dogs Proposal
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Why the law should bite back
Kenneth Baker Jan 3, 2007
My Dangerous Dogs Act should never have been watered down. Now it needs strengthening.
The Dangerous Dogs Act which I introduced in 1991 had two purposes. The first was to remove from the UK the pit bull and pit bull-type dogs and to prevent the import of three other dogs which had been bred to fight. Secondly, to oblige all dog owners not to let their dogs get dangerously out of control in a public place.
Pit bull terriers were bred to fight - there were many illegal dog fights then as there are now. Some of them changed hands for thousands of pounds, being advertised in magazines as “heroic” or “very heroic”. They were trained to be vicious and when their jaws clamped on an arm or leg it was impossible to prise them open until the dog was dead. There had been many attacks by pit bulls, not only on humans but on other dogs, and I had support for my proposals from the Kennel Club, the RSPCA and a body of vets. (emphasis added)
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