Dog pulling should go the way of fighting and baiting

[size=-1]Edinburgh,Scotland, -- [/size]DOG PULLING

IT is quite surprising that the dog remains mans' best friend in light of the abuse some receive at the hands of their thoughtless owners.


While not as grotesque or cruel as dog-fighting or badger baiting, the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is quite right to condemn the latest animal freak show to hit our shores - dog pulling - the first ever Scottish event being staged in the Lothians at the weekend. It may have taken place in a sports centre, but sport it most certainly isn't.

Competing in weight categories dogs were expected to pull heavily laden sledges across the ground. One unfortunate animal was tasked with trying to pull a sled loaded up with 2100lb - roughly the weight of 15 fully grown men.

Naturally the competition attracts owners of heavyweight breeds dogs such as bulldogs and bull terriers. Organised by the American-based United Pulling Federation the event could only go ahead because it was staged indoors, as it is illegal to make dogs pull loads on a public highway under the 1912 Protection of Animals Act. The Act was introduced to stop what was regarded at the time as the cruel practice of making dogs pull carts, generally on delivery rounds. Had it been envisaged at the time that such practice would be developed into a "sport" it is virtually certain that the Act would have been extended to cover all premises and not just highways.

The SSPCA is now seeking to have this loophole closed, calling for stricter guidelines to prevent further competitions being staged at any venue and is calling for venues themselves to refuse to take bookings. They say it is not only cruel but fear dogs that have not been properly trained in pulling excessive loads could easily be injured.

From the evidence they have seen they say that some dogs are clearly unaccustomed to such tasks and simply incapable of dealing with the loads their owners were trying to encourage them to pull.

It is sad to see that some dog owners seem unable to derive pleasure alone from owning and caring for a dog in return for love and affection and only seem to be able to gain some degree of perverse satisfaction from pushing an animal to beyond its limits of strength and endurance.

Such abuse should be outlawed and dog pulling should go the way of fighting and baiting and be classed as illegal, as the law no doubt intended.


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What will they think of next?

 

Well, its just another day in this sick world we live in. You might piss a PETAHEAD off or something and Gee-wiz don't say anything about a male dog humping another male dog because the pickle binders will get pissed along with the tree huggers and fish kissers.

 

Oh My F*cking Hell.... Is Walking Your Dog Going To Come Abusive Since Most Dogs Like To Drag Their Owners Around????

Give Me A F*ckin Break, Damn Hippies!!

 

L O L .yes thats it....c r a z y that sounds a lot like PETA...To be honour...I dont like this pull events....thats not the purpose of Bulldogs.....its one of a few reasons why ouer dogs getin bigger and bigger...

 

Sorry, But it's some of the UKC breeders crossing labs into the line for bone and mass. Lmao

 

one of a few....lol....thats it

 

Geeeze, Marty, I read this earlier, and was hoping I was seeing things....

Good God, what is up with this human race?!!!!!!:confused:

next we won't be able to ride horses. It'll become too inhumane....
...the list could be endless.....:eek:

 

stupid all i have to say is this is stupid

 

omg,,they make it sound so bad,,dog pulling,,pretty soon my dogs will have to sleep on the couch and I will be condemed to the floor.

 

Yep. That or we will be in the dog house. Well, im starting to dislike humans more and more everyday.....LOL....just kidding....only the ones who are not like us. Hope this BS doesnt fly far from its BS nest.

 

Yeah, I read that spew. Had to write a long letter to the editor and basically ask if we should put all dogs on the couch and deny them any working outlet. What garbage.

 

Isn't Europe great? Some city in Italy has a law forbidding speutering as well, apparently animals have a right to breed there.

 

PLease oh please do not label us hippies this way.LOL

You have to remember that PETA and other AR groups are pro animal and anti human. People with too much time on their hands that's for sure.

It is alarming that people actually believe what is said by these people. I swear it is going to get to the point that we will not be allowed to use animals in any way, be it weight pull, or even rescue, assistance animals.

All these AR groups do is make money for themselves and make life misserable for us dog owners.

Hell, if PETA can blow up research buildings, why can't we blow up PETA LOL

 

Sounds like a plan. (Who said that? Couldn't have been me. I didn't do it, you never saw me do it, you can't prove anything.)

 

i just don,t see how the could even consider this in line with dogfighting,,,,lmao,,, wonder what they,d say if they saw the inside of the box,,,lmao,,,,

 

I hate weight pulling anyway ....always did...pits are meant to scratch not pull......

and pulling weight does not prove a dog to be game...

The true preservation of the breed will be kept up by the people who don’t care about laws anyway.

 

Welcome to the New Age of Reason...........to be ruled solely by the weak....feeble....limp wristed and idiotic. I say kill all the tree huggers humaniacs and their type and start over.....seriously.

 

I say survival of the fittest,, sometimes ppl never quit amazing the hell out of me,,, and they say it is the free world,,,, with taxes and riasiing cost of living, hell we make less money persay (takehome) than they did back in the 50"s,,I think we are just a bunch of puppets on a string,,,seems that way