Can chipping stop dangerous Pit Bulls?
Long jail sentences would stop dog fighters; a famous GAA star called Gerard Cavlan was convicted of possessing a dangerous dog and fined £650. He was clearly demonstrated to be a senior figure in a dog fighting operation known as The Bulldog Sanctuary Kennels. He was caught red handed with a dog and admitted to BBC Spotlight that he still had “a dozen or 15 dogs”. His fine was about the same as you would get for speeding; does £650 seem like a fair penalty for this crime? One pit bull was said to cost 2000 euros on the Spotlight documentary: that is £1768. This business isn’t going to go away with light fines like £650 handed out. His gang imported dogs from Finland-based breeders, Robert Gonzales and Paul Dunkel. The dogs shipped through the South with fake pet passports, they were micro chipped and the paper suggested that they were Boxer-Labrador crossbreds. They were then moved up North. So it didn’t stop these chipped dogs from being imported, and it didn’t stop dog fighting. It
