Dog Laws & Horse Manure – Here’s the connection

Paul | blog | February 17, 2012

As people living in Ireland will already know, we are great at making up new laws, but can be found a bit wanting when it comes to actually enforcing them.

There are enough laws in place regarding responsible and general dog ownership to make your head swim.

It seems that horse ownership is heading down the same route according to this piece

This new piece of law, like most dog related ones, puts the onus on the owner to comply, the same as having to have a licence for your dog, picking up after your dog poops in a public place, not letting your dog roam freely, not to mention breed specific legislation.

With all the above laws in place, you’d think that with the amount of dogs in Ireland, and offending owners, the local authorities, who are responsible for the control of dogs, would have bank balances that are bursting at the seems.

Funny (or not) then that the dog warden service in Ireland loses about 3 Million Euro per annum.

In order to try and claw some of this back, the dog licence has increased to 20 Euro per dog, penalising, in my opinion, the people that already support and conform, instead of going after the vast majority of people that “own” dogs who laugh in the face of these laws and law makers.

I just hope that the department of Agriculture, Food and Marine has factored in additional staff to cope with the onslaught of people rushing to register their premises with the Department.