Thread: Please sign this Petition guys.

I need a muzzle for our 4 month-old Labrador pup - she's certainly not harmless! Her teeth are like needles.

Originally Posted by TomBrulinski

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If you have ever met a greyhound, you would have seen that they are extremely placid dogs and are completely harmless to humans.

Perhaps it is not humans that need to be protected from greyhounds.

Back in the 70s, a friend of mine was walking his little dog. I'm not sure what breed it was, but if I remember correctly, it looked a bit like a toilet brush with legs. A greyhound being exercised by its owner on the same playing field broke away from the owner and attacked the little dog.

Maybe it mistook it for a tin hare, but whatever the reason, the greyhound seemed bent on eating this little dog and as it was not wearing a muzzle, it probably would have if my friend had not intervened. It doesn't surprise me that the greyhound reacted as it did. Aren't they trained to chase little fluffy things that move?

There must have been a reason for the introduction of the regulation requiring muzzles. Perhaps it was because of incidents like the one I have described.

'They' should not discriminate by race, religion or breed. All dogs should be muzzled. Tight enough that they can't bark
And poo catchers too.

Funny because my greyhound has never barked once In my House nor in the backyard. And I adopted mine from a racer.

I might have forgotten some information, the greyhounds I am talking about are the greyhounds which have been through GAP NSW. GAP NSW are a adoption program for dumped greyhounds.
You should check them out. If you do not live in NSW, then not to worry, there is the GAP program in other states :P.
It might just change your mind

G'day Folks

For those that are unaware, "Greyhound Adoption Program" is the retraining and re-homing failed and aging racing greyhounds, it has been running for many years now and these re-homed dogs make very good pets,but tend to become "Lounge Lizards" but still need average exercise


cheers

Tom

I think you will find it is already the case

They just need to be temperament tested.

http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/dlg/dlghom...lars/11-02.pdf

However there are no approved temperament testing faciliteis as of yet so the amendment doesn't come in to effect until this happens

However the muzzles really although they say public saftey is about them chasing/attacking.eating smaller animals not biting people.

Yeh I have to admit when I had two cattle dogs I walk them in the park on a lead.
Occasionally I would come across a guy walking his muzzled greyhounds. From about 25m away this guy would go of his rocker, ranting and raving about coming to close. It was hard to tell who was more ago, the dogs or him, but I was glad the dogs were muzzled.
The really odd bit was he walked towards me the first couple times. But then I liked to walk over to him just to get a response, **** him