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Mark Vette: Animal behaviour expert on calls for jail sentences for owners of roaming animals · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right, let's go to Northland where this woman was killed
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  Speaker 1: in a dog attack has been named by a police
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  Speaker 1: now a third person to be killed by dogs in
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  Speaker 1: Northland in the last four years. Shane Jones's jail sentences
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  Speaker 1: for owners of roaming animals. You've got to crack down
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  Speaker 1: and crack down hard. Mark Vett is dogs in owner
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  Speaker 1: and pet behavior expert and joins me this morning, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, right, you very well, thank you. What do
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  Speaker 1: you do? How do you stop this? Because it's it's
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  Speaker 1: clearly becoming a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it is. It's definitely a problem. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean it was interesting to read a little bit. I
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  Speaker 2: mean very sad and you know, sema heart goes out
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  Speaker 2: to the fine out there of the person killed. It's yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a really sad situation. It sounds like to me
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  Speaker 2: there was in the door control with the other day before.
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  Speaker 2: They've been obviously working on this case for quite a while,
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  Speaker 2: so it's pretty sad that something wasn't done a bit sooner.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know the circumstances, so it's hard to know.
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  Speaker 2: But it's one of those situations where you've got a
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  Speaker 2: multi dog attack like that dog that attack previously other
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  Speaker 2: animals killed another dog or damaged another dog.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people were frightened of them. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that type of situation seems to be pretty obvious that
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  Speaker 2: there's something wrong there. When you've got and it's a
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  Speaker 2: high risk situation, I would have thought that had been done,
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  Speaker 2: something done sooner. Looking at the number of convictions, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's one in there. After all those situations up there,
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  Speaker 2: seems to me like there may be some rethinking there
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  Speaker 2: to be done in their dog control unit up there,
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  Speaker 2: is to how they impound those dogs and do something
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  Speaker 2: about it. Earlier, you know, it still was an attack
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  Speaker 2: about to happen by the sounds of it. But it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty hard to respond just to news that you're speculating on.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know what the teams. The teams a pretty
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  Speaker 2: high level of pressure, I'm sure up there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they are. I'm sure they are. But like,
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  Speaker 1: let's forget about that case for a second, mark, Let's
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  Speaker 1: get away from that and just say generally, if a
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  Speaker 1: dog attacks another dog or bites another bites a human
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  Speaker 1: and like it's you know, it's damaging, should they be alive?
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  Speaker 2: Well? No, And in most cases, when when they've got
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  Speaker 2: to a situation, you know, where they've particularly when they're
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  Speaker 2: seriously damaged another animal. Almost invariably there's but certainly by
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  Speaker 2: the second time youth in ages almost definitely on the cards.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be surprised if the cases had gone to court
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  Speaker 2: that there would have been any leniency and at that
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  Speaker 2: level of aggression, normally it's almost the other way around.
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  Speaker 2: But exactly clearly there's there's issues in regard to the punishment.
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  Speaker 2: But really the issue comes down, from my point of view,
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  Speaker 2: to education. I mean, obviously, sitting individuals, you can't simply
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  Speaker 2: educate they're not going to take that type of information.
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  Speaker 2: But I think a very important point is demonstrated to us.
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  Speaker 2: If we actually apply the right understanding in the formative
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  Speaker 2: period the two to four month period and a dog's
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  Speaker 2: life and socialize them, well, that behavior is not going
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  Speaker 2: to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. Mark Mark Vett, who's with us
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  Speaker 1: this morning, Dogs in owner and pet behavior expert.
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