Crackdown on strays
i Owners of wandering dogs ] will be required by the 'Christchurch City Council to make them available for more frequent dosing. That fnethod of cracking down on persistent offenders was approved by the council last evening. Dogs found at large, twice i will be subject to the stricter I measures. At. first, standard i
hydatids treatments will be, given at owners’ houses. If] there has not been a big re-] duction in stray dogs after! four months, the council may set up a central treatment site- where dogs wduld be taken. The council will also keep trying to get a change to the Hydatids Act that would' allow it to charge $lO for!
u extra treatments caused by f! owners failing to comply -1 with by-laws. Cr P.. N- G. Blaxall said t that one suggested proposal t for the future — that stray ! dogs found at night could be destroyed right away —- was j unfair. Owners should have I' at least 48 'hours grace before ! a dog was killed,
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Press, 22 November 1978, Page 16
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