Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Written evidence submitted by Gary Miller

My name is Gary Miller and I live in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

I would welcome some control over dangerous dogs, but I do not think it’s the dogs that are at fault, it’s the people who own them, so I really think that something needs to be done about the owners first.

I would then like to see registered breeders set up and members of the public being forced to have their puppies taken to the vets and have them made sterile so it can be controlled properly.

At the moment any Tom, Dick, and Harry can breed dogs and they always end up in the wrong hands, like drug dealers and even worse people who use dogs for fighting. So when people buy a dog from a registered breeder they would have to go through proper checks by the police—and if they can be bothered the RSPCA should get involved a lot more, by keeping records of people who have been in trouble before—and when someone wants to buy a pet they will have to show some form of identification then the police will check their records and then consult with the RSPCA. If there is no record of previous abuse or neglect then they will be allowed to buy a pet.

June 2012