AR-News: (AU) Vicious dogs still roam our streets

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Nikki Protyniak
23feb04

VICIOUS dogs are still roaming Victorian streets despite tough new laws 
designed to muzzle them. 
 Life scarred in seconds 

More than 1645 dog attacks - or five a day - have been reported in Melbourne 
suburbs since January last year. 
Thousands more cases of dogs terrorising or biting people and animals have 
gone unreported or unrecorded. 
The damning figures have prompted calls for all attack dogs other than guard 
dogs to be sterilised to wipe out their killer genes. 
"We need to breed them out of existence," Lost Dogs Home head Graeme Smith 
told the Herald Sun. 
"They're in the hands of drug dealers and criminals and all sorts of 
riff-raff. The only way to stop that is to stop more being born." 
Some of the most severe attacks on Melbourne streets over the past 12 months 
include: 







full story:

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8760781%255E661,00.h
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"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing."
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