Under new laws due this year, owners whose dogs kill or injure a person will face up to 14 years in jail. The current maximum is 2 years. Whilst judges and magistrates are mostly fucking wimps, and manage to avoid giving anywhere near the maximum sentence to anyone (and/or suspending it) there is at least some proper recognition of the dangers and abuse of dogs with such a hike in the penalty - if anyone can ever prove that the owner was actually responsible for a specific incident.
How then does it make sense for the penalty to be pathetic for those who breed dangerous dogs. Breeders of banned dogs face up to six months in prison or a maximum fine of £5,000. So, they would not be jailed, despite unleashing (pun fucking well intended!) on society banned dogs, and would be fined a couple of grand, to be paid at £10 per week out of benefits, probably. This practice needs stopping, so it makes perfect sense to me that the penalty for breeding dangerous dogs should be rather more than 2 years. If breeding a Pit bull is illegal, and thus those who do so are knowingly breaking the law, then what is wrong with a 10-year tariff?
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