By Joe Dimbleby
Friday, 06 August 2010
Exemptions for working gundogs sought as BASC calls for urgent lobby of committee before debate in September
BASC Northern Ireland is calling on shooters to lobby now for working dogs to be made exempt from a proposed ban on tail docking in the province. The ban is threatened in a draft Welfare of Animals Bill in Northern Ireland.
The Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development, which will be considering the draft bill next month, has called on the public to provide their views on the subject by 27 August. BASC is urging individual shooters to call on the committee to consider an exemption for working dogs in the proposed ban.
The committee will examine comments received from the public when their debate on the content of the bill resumes in September.
The rest of this article appears in 4th August issue of Shooting Times.
BASC Northern Ireland is calling on shooters to lo...
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