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Per Olav · 21-12-2009, 23:17

Hi Paul and thanks for you message.

Here's a brief summary of the background.

Prior to 1990 there were no general law of how to keep dogs in my country. There were a lot of regulations "hidden" inside other laws, like laws for protecting the wild life, livestock, animal welfare, neighboring, park regulations etc etc.

By the mid 1980 several countries implementet laws on dagerous dogs - and Norway followed the general trend by prohibiting "fighting dogs" like the Pitbull and three more "excotic" breeds nobody at that time haven't heard of. Today no one - even the Kennel Club or our Authorities can explain the reason of the Norwegian ban - the couple of dozen Pitbulls residing inside our border made no harm to anyone.

By mid 1990 our lawmakers decided to put all regulations related to dogkeeping in one general law.

By 1990 a kid aged 5 was killed by a Polar dog breed while playing unattende inside the courtyard of his divorced mother's home. The dog was owned by the mothers new friend and the animal had earlier shown aggressiveness against people.

Ten years later a boy of seven was killed and partly eaten by a pack of mutts.

The appointed Minister of Justice invited the fathers of the both killed boys and a third one whose little kid was attacked and badly injured by a dog as the Ministry's advisors when preparing the dog law. At a later stage another one attended the group. This one declared himself as a supporter of our national "federation of wolf haters" and popped up like a Jumping Jack anywhere and everywhere declaring the most reasonable way of preventing dog bites was by banning certain breeds and for sure wolfdogs must be banned due to their inheritance frrom the wolf and its history of a dangerous specie. In particular the csv which he wrote had a bad reputation as "killer dog of Eastern Europe Armies" should be banned. His view was supported by the "group of fathers" refering to attacks made by American wolfdogs.

Several meetings were arranged but none the arguments of the Kennel Klub, experts and others made any influence on the Ministry's decission: banning certain breeds was the best way of making an end to fatal dogbites. To end this story: The Amstaff was banned by the request of the Police due to its close relation to the previously banned Pitbull, and the csv by the request of the Ministry's advisors.

By now a new situation has occured which may make a change if properly handled by the Kennel Klub and our experts. But for time beeing my lips are sealed cause it's a matter of police investigation and most likely a possible case for the psyciatrics

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po

21-12-2009, 23:17	#84
Per Olav Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 395	Hi Paul and thanks for you message. Here's a brief summary of the background. Prior to 1990 there were no general law of how to keep dogs in my country. There were a lot of regulations "hidden" inside other laws, like laws for protecting the wild life, livestock, animal welfare, neighboring, park regulations etc etc. By the mid 1980 several countries implementet laws on dagerous dogs - and Norway followed the general trend by prohibiting "fighting dogs" like the Pitbull and three more "excotic" breeds nobody at that time haven't heard of. Today no one - even the Kennel Club or our Authorities can explain the reason of the Norwegian ban - the couple of dozen Pitbulls residing inside our border made no harm to anyone. By mid 1990 our lawmakers decided to put all regulations related to dogkeeping in one general law. By 1990 a kid aged 5 was killed by a Polar dog breed while playing unattende inside the courtyard of his divorced mother's home. The dog was owned by the mothers new friend and the animal had earlier shown aggressiveness against people. Ten years later a boy of seven was killed and partly eaten by a pack of mutts. The appointed Minister of Justice invited the fathers of the both killed boys and a third one whose little kid was attacked and badly injured by a dog as the Ministry's advisors when preparing the dog law. At a later stage another one attended the group. This one declared himself as a supporter of our national "federation of wolf haters" and popped up like a Jumping Jack anywhere and everywhere declaring the most reasonable way of preventing dog bites was by banning certain breeds and for sure wolfdogs must be banned due to their inheritance frrom the wolf and its history of a dangerous specie. In particular the csv which he wrote had a bad reputation as "killer dog of Eastern Europe Armies" should be banned. His view was supported by the "group of fathers" refering to attacks made by American wolfdogs. Several meetings were arranged but none the arguments of the Kennel Klub, experts and others made any influence on the Ministry's decission: banning certain breeds was the best way of making an end to fatal dogbites. To end this story: The Amstaff was banned by the request of the Police due to its close relation to the previously banned Pitbull, and the csv by the request of the Ministry's advisors. By now a new situation has occured which may make a change if properly handled by the Kennel Klub and our experts. But for time beeing my lips are sealed cause it's a matter of police investigation and most likely a possible case for the psyciatrics -- po Last edited by Per Olav; 22-12-2009 at 15:06.