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Monday, April 25, 2005

There Oughta Be a Law... 

Dogs are gonna have it really sweet in Turin Italy:

Dog owners in Turin will be fined up to $650 if they don't walk their pets at least three times a day, under a new law from the city's council.

People will also be banned from dyeing their pets' fur or "any form of animal mutilation" for merely aesthetic motives such as docking dogs' tails, under the law about to be passed in the northern Italian city.

"In Turin it will be illegal to turn one's dog into a ridiculous fluffy toy," the city's La Stampa daily reported.

Italians can already be fined up to 10,000 euros and spend a year in prison if found guilty of torturing or abandoning their pets, but Turin's new rules go into much greater detail.

Dogs may be led for walks by people on bicycles, the rules say, "but not in a way that would tire the animal too much."
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It said the 20-page rulebook gives Turin the most stringent animal protection rules in the country. It even bans fairgrounds from giving away goldfish in plastic bags.

Three times a day? Do people in Turin not have jobs... or do the new rules stipulate that they can just leave in the middle of the day to walk their dog? Don't think that this can't happen in the U.S. either... I'm sure there is a political action group funded by the National Dog Walkers Association just drooling over this.

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