Animal Health and Welfare Bill

fbrander · Graduate

Animal Health and Welfare Bill

max · Enlightened One

Your best bet is to get in touch with one of the commitee members, just click on their name and you can PM them or E-mail from the LIST ALL USERS section. Nora

Welcome to the forum fbrander sorry do not know your name.

fbrander · Graduate

Thanks Max- my name is Fiona

max · Enlightened One

Hello Fiona, my name is Nora AKA Max, hope to hear more from you and about your grey why don,t you give an introduction about yourself in the Introductions postings.

Nora. Sorry just read your intro and about your lovely dogs. My brother-in-law lives in Elgin but he does not have a grey, feel free to post what and when you like.

-- Edited by max at 19:31, 2006-05-06

Dave · Enlightened One

Hi Fiona, GAL have had some involvement in the new bill, we were sent a copy last year as part of the consultancy for the initial draft. At the time we'd found out that the equivalent bill in England had been amended to exclude Greyhounds so we wrote to the powers at be and were happy to receive cofirmation that Geyhounds were fully part of the bill. Guess I felt this was a wee bit of a victory for Scottish Greyhounds. There's a conference being held in Edinburgh at the end of June on the implementation of the new bill and I'll be going along for a nosey and of course to represent GAL.

I know there's 'part 2' of the bill currently in progress, are you hoping that Greyhound Racing and the care of the retired hounds are made part of this legislation? Would be interested in your thoughts. There's many parties who would have vested interests in this including the NGRC and the RGT (although obviously not where the flappers are concerned)...

cheers

Dave

haz25a · Old Hand

Well, I'm certainly hoping that Greyhound Racing and the care of both the hounds who are still "working" and the retired ones are taken care of. I thought there was "some" legislation in place? Although I'm sure it needs radically updated and stricter measures taken to enforce it by law!

Hazel.

Dave · Enlightened One

Dave wrote:

At the time we'd found out that the equivalent bill in England had been amended to exclude Greyhounds so we wrote to the powers at be and were happy to receive cofirmation that Geyhounds were fully part of the bill.

Just to clarify this point, under the Scottish Animal Welfare bill Greyhounds in Scotland are treated just like any other breed of dog whereas in England they are specifically excluded from any of the legislation in their equivelant bill.