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Post by Mel Mel on Dec 6, 2006 15:51:14 GMT
Norfolk based animal rights group, "PETA," is calling or a statewide ban on the practice of chaining dogs.
The group claims chaining dogs can make them more aggressive. In Richmond Tuesday, PETA launched a statewide effort to ban the practice of chaining dogs led by the cousin of a two-year-old Suffolk boy who was mauled to death last year by his family's two dogs.
8NEWS is told the dogs had spent most of their lives chained outdoors.
The victim's cousin Alice Conner says, ""The dogs who killed Jonathan were his own family's dogs and it didn't make a difference that they knew who he was they had gone mad from confinement and neglect and we can learn from these tragedies and work together to prevent additional ones."
Alice Conner and PETA are urging state lawmakers to introduce a bill similar to one recently signed into law in California that would restrict chaining to no more than three hours per day.www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?S=5773036
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Post by jessica345 on Dec 9, 2006 15:50:52 GMT
I would love to see a chaining ban here.
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