Chief sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Orville Lon­don says he has no sym­pa­thy for neg­li­gent peo­ple who own dan­ger­ous dogs. He was re­spond­ing to a ques­tion about the re­cent in­crease in at­tacks on peo­ple by dan­ger­ous dogs. Lon­don stressed that own­ers of such breed of dogs should not al­low their pets to be placed in a po­si­tion to harm peo­ple. "I re­al­ly have very lit­tle sym­pa­thy with own­ers of dan­ger­ous dogs who al­low their dogs for what­ev­er rea­son to be placed in a po­si­tion where they can in fact in­flict hurt on hu­man be­ings," he said.

Lon­don said he was ea­ger­ly await­ing the im­ple­men­ta­tion of leg­is­la­tion to deal with delin­quent dog own­ers, adding that it was long over­due. "I hope it comes very soon, when there is go­ing to be very strict leg­is­la­tion against per­sons, not the an­i­mals, but the per­sons who make the de­ci­sion to keep dan­ger­ous dogs...That is their per­son­al de­ci­sion but they did not take the nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions," he said. "I think the leg­is­la­tion it is long over­due and I think it should be in­tro­duced quick­ly and that the sanc­tions should be very se­vere." (CTF)