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Ryan Bridge: I've had it with vicious dogs · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: I have had it with vicious dogs and their useless owners.
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  Speaker 1: How many more children and pets will we tolerate being
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  Speaker 1: maimed and punctured to death before this actually gets taken seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Another one at the weekend women had his scalp ripped off.
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  Speaker 1: It's awful stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I've personally had three people in my life and I'm
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  Speaker 2: just one person who've been out for a walk with
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  Speaker 2: their wee pups on a leash registered of course, that'll
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  Speaker 2: cost you two hundred bucks, poop bags in hand, doing
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  Speaker 2: all the right things, only to be attacked by some
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  Speaker 2: absolutely vicious mongrel and I mean absolutely ripped to pieces,
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  Speaker 2: puncture wounds, owners taken to the ground, blood everywhere, shock
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  Speaker 2: hospital visits for the humans, expensive vet bills for the animals.
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  Speaker 2: If they are lucky to survive, the road to recovery
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  Speaker 2: is long, and poor old pup never really shakes the
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  Speaker 2: anxiety orders the owner. You've seen photos and the news
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  Speaker 2: of kids' faces that look like they've been through the butchers.
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  Speaker 2: It's gruesome, awful stuff, and those injuries are with them
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  Speaker 2: for life. In Auckland alone, last year three thousand attacks
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  Speaker 2: fifteen thousand roaming dogs reported. When do else do you
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  Speaker 2: call something a crisis than now. Council says they're cracking down,
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  Speaker 2: clearly too slow, clearly not working. Dogs need to be
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  Speaker 2: destroyed immediately. Owners need to be banned from owning. But
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  Speaker 2: they're not. This is according to the victims. They say, nah,
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  Speaker 2: they're just treated like they're victims too. And here's something
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  Speaker 2: that I thought was interesting in looking into this yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: If a dog is attacking you, or you witness a
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  Speaker 2: dog attacking another person or another dog, legally, you can
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  Speaker 2: destroy the dog in that moment. It's legal. If your
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  Speaker 2: actions will stop that attack from continuing, you do have
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  Speaker 2: the right to seize or destroy the animal, which would
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  Speaker 2: seem to be the safety And when you look at
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  Speaker 2: the outcomes and you look at the number, would be
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  Speaker 2: a safer option if a dog is attacking a child,
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't you say?
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