Make allowing an injury causing dog on dog attack by an owner a criminal offence

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Lottie was attacked by a dog & suffered some horrific injuries.The attacking dog was not under the proper control of its owner/walker. Currently unless a person is in fear of being attacked by or is attacked by the attacking dog, the law does not consider dog on dog attacks to be a criminal offence.

Owners/responsible persons must be held accountable, under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, if their dog is allowed to attack another dog; where injuries are caused to the victim dog, by intentionally allowing their dog to cause harm to another dog or through recklessness.
#Lottieslaw

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We're very sorry to hear about what happened to Lottie. We can't accept your petition because this one calls for something very similar:

Reform Dangerous Dogs Act to include unprovoked attacks on any other dog

Timeline

25 Jun 2019	Petition opened for signatures
23 Jul 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 23 Jul 2019

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