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Oh and what about human deaths caused by pet dogs in the UK... well a freedom of information request to the Office of National Statistics produced the following data...in just the period 1981 to 2015 there have been 78 (Seventy-Eight) human deaths in the UK alone directly attributed to dog bites!
So what is the greater risk to public? One lone Lynx or one of the estimated 8.5 million pet dogs in the UK?
Surely, if one young escaped Lynx is seen as a 'severe risk' to public safety, shouldn't councils be sending out police marksmen around the country to 'humanely destroy' any dog they spot off the lead? And every home with a pet dog surely needs to be inspected that it has adequately secure fencing and gates to be certain that these potentially dangerous animals cannot get out into the streets or neighbouring gardens.
In fact, surely we ought to legislate against such 'dangerous' animals as dogs being kept in 'populated places'?
Come on Ceredigion Council, you obviously take the protection of your local population very seriously, why not proudly be the first council in the UK to help rid the country of the dogs that pose such a threat to us all! And think of all the sheep you would help save....15,000 were killed by dogs in 2016 alone in the UK!