Dogs Worrying Sheep

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 85, 7 October 1893, Page 3

Dogs Worrying Sheep

The following reply to a correspoi dent is from tbe Auckland Weekl News : — « Does a man render hirasel liable, in a Court of Justice, for shool ing another man's dog when seei worrying sheep?"— No. Every do that is seen injuring stock of any kin should be killed at once to save fui ther trouble with him. The 17th t 19th clauses of the Dog Registratio Act, 1880, are very clear upon thi point, and it would be well for owner of dangerous dogs to carefully perus clauses of this Act from the 14th t the 19th inclusive, as we are sure sucl perusal would give the owners of suci dogs a fair idea of responsibility the^ incur, and a perusal of these clause would also give the general public who do not delight in bull dogs o various breeds, mastiffs, and othei brutal dispositioned dogs, a knowledgi of the statutory powers they possess in causing such savage dogs either tc be destroyed, kept securely muzzled or kept so that they can do neithei harm to man nor beast. The clauses we have named for quotation, the 17th to the 19th, read as follows: — 17. Any person who should see a dog be ing at large biting or attacking any person, or any borse, or sheep, or cattle, or who shall himself be bitten or attacked by such dog, may destroy the same without being answerable foe damages occasioned thereby. 1 8. The owner, or agent of the owner, of any cattle, or sheep, or any servant or person employed by such Sowner or agent, may destroy any dog running at large amongst such cattle or sheep. 19. The owner of every dog shall be liable in damages for injury done by his dog, and it shall not be necessary for the party seeking damages to show a previous mischievous propensity in such dog, or the owner's knowlede of such mischievous propensity, or that the injury was attributable to neglect on the part of the owner of the dog. These clauses make your position clear _>n<->nnr)i