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Current Petitions

Tail Docking (PE1196 and PE1230)

Tuesday 26 October 2010 Public Petitions Committee About 14:00 Petitions 2 contributions · 2 speakers

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Rhona Brankin Lab The Convener · Midlothian
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Petitions PE1196 and PE1230 are being considered together.PE1196, by Michael Brander, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 as a matter of urgency to allow for the tails of working dogs to be docked.PE1230, by Dr Colin Shedden, on behalf of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, the Scottish Countryside Alliance, the Scottish Gamekeepers Association and the Scottish Rural Property and Business Association, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the Prohibited Procedures on Protected Animals (Exemptions) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 to allow prophylactic tail docking of working dogs under tightly specified circumstances. I seek members’ views on the two petitions.

Nanette Milne Con North East Scotland
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I believe that we have a timescale from the Government on this one. It will decide within the next two months whether to commission further research in light of the report that has been published. We should again suspend consideration of the petition until we get that decision and hope that the Government sticks to the timetable that it has given us.Members indicated agreement.

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