Ban Tail Docking on Dogs in Ireland


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/ #28 Re: Actual text of the Act

2013-11-11 00:02

#19: Barry - Actual text of the Act

Hi Barry. Alan Rossiter here, Veterinary ireland representative. You are right in that the Act will prohibit docking and dew claw removal

"unless the operation or procedure is carried out in accordance with

(i) animal health and welfare regulations,"

It is intended to issue animal health and welfare regulations - an SI, that can be signed into effect by the Minister without having to be passed by the Oireachtas - to allow for these procedures to be done by non-vets using no anaesthesia or pain relief.

It is now our job to convince the Minister not to do this, and indeed to convince him that he cannot do this as these precedures are cosmetic, and cosmetic procedures are prohibited in this section of the Act!