Sunday, April 16, 2017
Saturday, April 8, 2017
The missing laws
The dog laws in NSW are pretty good. If only councils would enforce them seriously!
But, a couple are missing:
Negligently failing to contol a dog causing serious injury: 5 years, $20k fine, restitution to victim; ...death: 15 years, $50k fine, restitution to victim's family.
Recklessly failing to control a dog causing serious injury: 8 years, $40k fine, restitution;...death: 20 years, $100k fine; restitution.
The penalty would apply to the person who is in proximate charge of the dog, or the owner, or the contoller of the property where the dog is known to habitually reside.
Negligently is where the person is passive and has not been warned, recklessly is where the person urges the dog on, fails to respond reasonably to a warning by any person, where the dog has previously attacked or is a dangerous dog or has the dog in a public place.
Currently the penalties for a dog causing death or serious injury are trivial.
But, a couple are missing:
Negligently failing to contol a dog causing serious injury: 5 years, $20k fine, restitution to victim; ...death: 15 years, $50k fine, restitution to victim's family.
Recklessly failing to control a dog causing serious injury: 8 years, $40k fine, restitution;...death: 20 years, $100k fine; restitution.
The penalty would apply to the person who is in proximate charge of the dog, or the owner, or the contoller of the property where the dog is known to habitually reside.
Negligently is where the person is passive and has not been warned, recklessly is where the person urges the dog on, fails to respond reasonably to a warning by any person, where the dog has previously attacked or is a dangerous dog or has the dog in a public place.
Currently the penalties for a dog causing death or serious injury are trivial.
But, what to do...
From the previous post, what to do if you are in the circumstances of the owner of the dog being attacked?
There's plenty of advice on the internet; some of it ill-informed and stupid, but here are a few thoughts:
If the dog has latched on, grab a stick (or carry a short piece of 20mm dowel) work it into the attacker's mouth and shove it hard down its throat.
Same stick, gouge the attacker's eyes.
Push as hard as you can on the attacker's throat just at the back of the jaw: use closed fist, as fingers can easily get injured if the dog snaps at you.
Land on the attacker's back with your knees between its shoulders, and pull the front legs apart to dislocate the joints.
Lift the hind legs. This may distract the dog. If you are strong enough pull them apart to dislocate the hips if possible.
Insert the dowel from above into the dog's anus: hard and fast. Probably fatal, but certainly painful.
Use a spray of cloudy ammonia, oven cleaner or disolved draino in the attacker's face aiming for eyes or nose if possible.
Hard blow cross the attacker's nose, seeking to break it (that is, really hard).
Note that dogs are fast and strong. Any action that you take has to be with full force: no mucking around with a light tap.
Kicking, hitting the dog's torso will likely do NOTHING, so don't bother.
Check here.
There's plenty of advice on the internet; some of it ill-informed and stupid, but here are a few thoughts:
If the dog has latched on, grab a stick (or carry a short piece of 20mm dowel) work it into the attacker's mouth and shove it hard down its throat.
Same stick, gouge the attacker's eyes.
Push as hard as you can on the attacker's throat just at the back of the jaw: use closed fist, as fingers can easily get injured if the dog snaps at you.
Land on the attacker's back with your knees between its shoulders, and pull the front legs apart to dislocate the joints.
Lift the hind legs. This may distract the dog. If you are strong enough pull them apart to dislocate the hips if possible.
Insert the dowel from above into the dog's anus: hard and fast. Probably fatal, but certainly painful.
Use a spray of cloudy ammonia, oven cleaner or disolved draino in the attacker's face aiming for eyes or nose if possible.
Hard blow cross the attacker's nose, seeking to break it (that is, really hard).
Note that dogs are fast and strong. Any action that you take has to be with full force: no mucking around with a light tap.
Kicking, hitting the dog's torso will likely do NOTHING, so don't bother.
Check here.
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