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Date Posted: 06:26:57 08/14/03 Thu
Author: Karen
Subject: Italy proposing BSL

I really need to get the day started but I had to post this - Please cross post: (I have no other info than this right now)

13 August 2003
ROME:
After a spate of attacks on joggers and children by pitbulls, Italy may make breeding, importing and even owning the dog illegal. "In the face of the many aggressions we can't sit back and do nothing," Health Minister Girolama Sirchia told La Repubblica newspaper in comments published yesterday. "We have to decide breed by breed. For some, like pitbulls and rottweilers, we have to think about the possibility of banning the import, breeding and ownership of the animals," Sirchia said. Seven pitbull attacks over the past five days have prompted calls for strict control of the dogs. Two children were severely injured, and a woman jogger underwent 16 hours of emergency surgery. She is in critical condition. A Health Ministry spokesman said a proposal to regulate attack dogs will be put to parliament in September and would include a list of dangerous breeds.



Poul Poulsen
www.eurowaf.org
American Canine Foundation

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