Dog News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The teen gangsters new weapon of choice: a snarling dog | India Knight – Times Online I like how this article attracts comments like this: Quote: Bob Bates wrote: ...
Dog News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The teen gangsters new weapon of choice: a snarling dog | India Knight – Times Online I like how this article attracts comments like this: Quote: Bob Bates wrote: ...
Tory Troll (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Deputy Mayor of London Kit Malthouse speaking at Mayor's Question Time last month: "There is an increasing trend, and I have raised this a couple of times before in the Assembly, for opposition Members, and in particular John Biggs, to ask very wide and open and specious and facetious questions which are designed to be provocative and not, actually, designed to do what we are supposed...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The cat-loving Adam Bienkov has joined The Staffordshire Bull Terrier Breed Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and K9 magazine in questioning Kit Malthouse's recent proposal that we follow legislators in Ontario and "find a way gently to phase out the canine weapons that terrorise the streets of Peckham, Toxteth and Moss Side." Given the range and rage of the opposition...
Tory Troll (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Dog owners have reacted angrily to proposals by Boris Johnson's Deputy Mayor or Policing Kit Malthouse to wipe entire breeds of dog off the map. Under the plans, all bull dogs including the Staffordshire Bull Terrier would need to be registered, muzzled and neutered, effectively killing off those breeds within the UK. Labeling them as "weapon dogs" Malthouse writes that : "As...
Boris Watch (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... Donovan had been quietly ferreting away on the story, and had also footage of Boris’s deputy, Kit Malthouse, speaking about the proposed airport at a fringe meeting at the Tory party conference. (My Standard colleague Sri Carmichael, who was on Malthouse’s trail at the conference, was the first reporter to break the news of the possible foreign investment in Boris Island .) … Footage...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Authority is in session. Mayor Boris Johnson is in the Chair, but the Uber Vice Chair Deputy Mayor Kit Malthouse AM (the UVCDMKMAM) is not at his side yet (he is running late), so the Mayor is flying without lights (and no hand on his tiller). First business is a petition calling on the Metropolitan Police to retain its dedicated specialist unit dedicated to to combating the crime of human...
Ambush Predator (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Dave Hill writes on ‘weapon dogs’ in CiF, and specifically on Kit Malthouse’s stupid statement : Last week Malthouse hosted a summit with members of the Met's status dogs unit and the RSPCA. All agreed on a need for further action, but none have publicly endorsed Malthouse's call for a policy of managed extinction similar to that in Ontario. Why not ? Because...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Many blame 'weapon dogs' solely on bad owners, but is it not disingenuous to deny that animals are bred for particular traits? In a recent article Kit Malthouse, Boris Johnson's deputy for policing in London, called for all "weapon dogs" of the "bull-type" to be not only registered and muzzled but also neutered and so humanely yet effectively phased out of existence. He...
Tory Troll (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Boris Johnson squashed his Deputy's proposals to wipe out bull dog breeds today, saying that the last thing he wanted was to see "harmless pooches being slaughtered." The comments came after his Deputy Mayor for Policing Kit Malthouse called for all bull dog breeds to be "phased out" in the UK. Under the proposals, modeled on a scheme in Ontario, owners who refused to have...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... of London's real intentions? Does he want London to become an airport-free zone? His close adviser Kit Malthouse seemed to suggest this when he wrote in the Sunday Times that the new airport would be so large (up to six runways) that Heathrow could be transferred there . And he believes there's plenty of room for Gatwick too. No thought has been given to the thousands of businesses and jobs...
Boris Watch (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Not a dog person, myself, so the amusement of the long-grass-kicking of another of Deputy Mayor ‘Weapon Cat’ Malthouse’s mental ticks (banning prostitute cards, Thames Estuary airport, tunnels under Park Lane, Dangerous Dogs – it’s a litany of moribund Tory big ideas really) is entirely objective. Obviously. Dog owners – especially owners of bull breeds –...
Ambush Predator (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
...no, not for dogs. For idiot politicians : The Deputy Mayor of London, Kit Malthouse , said consideration should also be given to banning all bull breeds which were inherently more aggressive than other dogs and were " canine weapons that terrorise the streets of Peckham, Toxteth and Moss Side". Firstly, this will simply prompt the thugs to switch to other breeds, equally as capable...
City Hall (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... course - and he hoped that the police would support public spirited individuals. Policing supremo, Kit Malthouse was nodding during these comments, which is a good sign. The claim by female MPs that public transport is too dangerous for them to use at night was also given short shrift. Many other female - and male - workers commute late at night and they don't require a second home in town....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... dog bites increase by 79% , compared to 43% nationally. The Conservative deputy mayor of London, Kit Malthouse, hosted the meeting with the RSPCA, Metropolitan police and representatives from the capital's 32 boroughs. Malthouse, who is deputy mayor for policing, said urgent action was needed so that "Londoners are free to walk the streets without fear of intimidation, injury...
