Testing owners for competence would reduce dog attacks

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Testing owners for competence would reduce dog attacks
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We should start by reinstating an annually renewable dog licence and with it introduce a test so that knowledge of animal welfare and general competence can be assessed by experts | ✍️ Angela Epstein

og attacks make for harrowing reading. Yet it’s often presumed that only certain supposedly dangerous breeds are responsible — that granite jaws, rippling muscles and a genetic predisposition to aggression are necessary to wound or occasionally cause a fatality.

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