Amend the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to protect dogs from heat-related suffering — 14 signatures. Status: rejected.
We ask the UK Government to amend the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to make it a specific offence to knowingly exercise a dog in conditions that are likely to cause heat-related suffering.
Current legislation prohibits causing unnecessary suffering, but it does not specifically address exercising dogs in dangerous heat. Every year, dogs suffer and die from preventable heatstroke. We believe the law should explicitly recognise that knowingly exercising a dog in conditions likely to cause heatstroke or severe heat-related illness is an animal welfare offence.
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