DutchNews, November 2, 2017
Rotterdam is stepping up measures to curb
dangerous dogs in response to a series of biting incidents in the city.
Dogs
belonging to ‘high risk breeds’, such as pitbulls, will be forced to wear muzzles in public and banned from communal spaces such as shopping centres and
playgrounds. A hotline where people can report dangerous dogs is also being set
up.
Animals that bite people will be put down by order of the council and the
owner banned from owning dangerous breeds in future.
The stricter rules have
been proposed by alderman Joost Eerdmans, who is responsible for animal
welfare. A team of six enforcement officials will check that owners are
complying with the rules on muzzling and leashing.
In August an eight-year-old
girl was seriously injured when she was bitten by a pitbull owned by a man
whose dogs had been involved in previous biting incidents.
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