Dog in front of cruiser
Submitted: Sunday, Jun 26, 2011 at 22:47
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Well now I have seen everything, tonight while my wife and I were taking our 3 year old to in-laws there was a land cruiser cab chassis beside us, the usual steel pig cage on the back, spotties across the top, single spotty in the middle of the roof and the pigging dog sound asleep in a steel cage mounted to the front of the bull bar, what tha, we had to look twice to make sure it wasn't a dead pig and he had run out of room on the ute, but no we were correct, here was the dog sound asleep (it did move at one stage so we new it was alive) curled up. Surely besides been cruel this must be illegal ?? And I hope to god he has good brakes because if he runs up the clacker of some one that dog would be a goner. It just looked like a steel crate made out of concreting rio tied together, then tied to bull bar, had it been daylight I would have got a picture of it with my phone but was to dark and my phone camera wouldn't have picked it up, didn't even think of getting number plate we were so gob smacked with what we saw. So besides been irresponsible this must surely be illegal as
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Reply By: Member - Serendipity(WA) - Monday, Jun 27, 2011 at 08:23
Monday, Jun 27, 2011 at 08:23
From what I understand it is illegal to have anything protruding further out than the structure of the roo bar. This would include fishing rod holders, spot lights, arials etc. All these items attached to the roo bar need to be behind the line of the bar work - in other words what ever you hit with the roo bar should come in contact with the bar work first and not some sharp edged fishing rod holder.
I have seen out board motors, spare tyres, lots of fishing rod holders, spot lights, aerials and sand flag mounts, roof rack extensions all sitting or protruding beyond the roo bar. All technically illegal. Some only by a minor bit - some dangerously.
I am sure this one will get picked up by an alert cop pretty soon if he hangs out in the city for a while.
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Reply By: Fatso - Monday, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:45
Monday, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:45
What's all the fuss about some morons dog when over 2000 people die each year on Australian roads.
Over 300 died in Qld last year & 6200 were hospitalised because of road accidents.
I wonder how many dogs got run over by the average idiot driver who thought they would get out of the way.
Speak of dogs. I remember some years back an elderly lady somewhere in Australia was killed by a bull terrier that flew out of a ute and hit her as it was going around a corner and she was waiting to cross the road.
As for the poor old pig shooters. They are on the way out. Just about everywhere you can't keep enough dogs to keep up a supply of trained dogs if you use holding dogs.
Can't use dogs if you supply the export market & it won't be long before the animals rights do-gooders get them in their sights. they won't stand a chance if the do-gooders have the power to bring down a $300,000,000 export industry & send 5000 workers to the dole office armed with no more than just a TV show.
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Follow Up By: ross - Tuesday, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:46
Tuesday, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:46
Fatso,its my understanding the exporters and others in the live trade already knew about the cruel treatment of stock delivered to Indonesian abattoirs more than 6 months ago but chose to turn a blind eye.
This resulted in those with the proof taking it to the media.
In fact allegations of animal cruelty in the live export trade has been reported many times over the last 20 years ,so these are not really "out of the blue" cases.
Ive worked in abattoirs and meatworks all over this country and never saw the need to be intentionally cruel to animals and I dont see why they need to be that way in SE Asia.
I dont like seeing an industry threatened or its workers being thrown out of work,but the people in the trade had ample warning and chose to ignore it.
They are the ones who are largely to blame for their own misfortunes and should also shoulder the blame for those being thrown out of work,not the so called "do gooders" who you seem to blame for everything you lack understanding in.
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Follow Up By: Fatso - Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 15:31
Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 15:31
It's a shame that people can't get as emotional about 2000 deaths a year on Australian roads as they do about the live cattle trade.
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Follow Up By: ross - Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 18:24
Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 at 18:24
It is possible to be concerned about the death toll on the roads and animal cruelty unless you have some sort of single issue personality disorder. :wink:
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