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23-05-2011, 09:44 PM
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23-05-2011, 09:47 PM
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Location: Wiltshire UK
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23-05-2011, 09:48 PM
Originally Posted by jade the sbt 
im sorry does the actual law say there that they can be legally owned in certain cases? yes i think so. JEEZ
Ergo, they are illegal.
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Location: North Yorkshire
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23-05-2011, 09:50 PM
It's just so unfair.We were warned just last night of a dog apparently new in the village who has broken free of it's lead and really hurt a JRT, I was petrified to meet it tonight on our walk, luckily we didn't.
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23-05-2011, 09:50 PM
Originally Posted by jade the sbt
Section 1 Dangerous Dogs Act 1991
It is a criminal offence to possess certain types of dog and the most common of these is the dog of the type known as the pit bull terrier. The only way such dogs can be lawfully kept is if they are registered on the Index of Exempted Dogs, but the only way such dogs can go on the Register is by Court order. There is no provision for a keeper to make an application to a Court themselves.
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Location: cumbernauld, scotland
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23-05-2011, 09:50 PM
Originally Posted by smokeybear
As pit bulls had to be neutered back in 1991 all Current Pit Bulls are technically illegal as they were BANNED from being imported and bred!
Ergo, they are illegal.
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23-05-2011, 09:51 PM
Originally Posted by jade the sbt
Section 1 Dangerous Dogs Act 1991
It is a criminal offence to possess certain types of dog and the most common of these is the dog of the type known as the pit bull terrier. The only way such dogs can be lawfully kept is if they are registered on the Index of Exempted Dogs, but the only way such dogs can go on the Register is by Court order. There is no provision for a keeper to make an application to a Court themselves.
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Location: cumbernauld, scotland
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23-05-2011, 09:52 PM
Originally Posted by Tupacs2legs
yes but they should of died of old age by now
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Location: Wiltshire UK
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23-05-2011, 09:52 PM
Originally Posted by jade the sbt
wrong. they are banned, however if they do exist the limit of the authorities powers is to take you to court. where if you can prove the dog is NOT DANGEROUS then the dog is then registered and is as legal as the next dog. FACT
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Location: cumbernauld, scotland
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23-05-2011, 09:53 PM
Originally Posted by smokeybear
Read my following post, if all the dogs were neutered as they had to be as well as being muzzled and kept on leads in public, they could not procreate, so therefore any dog, bar the very old ones on the register already, are BANNED, ILLEGAL etc etc.
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