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Speaker 1: Now once again there are calls to overhaul the dog laws.

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Speaker 1: These laws are old, about thirty years old, and DASA

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Speaker 1: shows that acc claims from dog attacks have grown in

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Speaker 1: the last few years from about eleven million dollars, it's

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Speaker 1: almost sixteen million dollars and most of this actually the

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Speaker 1: attacks happens in private homes. Dog trainer and owner of

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Speaker 1: Ministry of How Diana Hagart is with us now on

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Speaker 1: this high Diana, Hi, how are you doing. I'm very well,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Would you support an overhaul of the laws?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Why?

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Speaker 2: As you said, you know, there's been an increase, it's

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Speaker 2: been a steady increase since. I mean, I've been working

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Speaker 2: with dogs for nineteen years and I started out my

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Speaker 2: career with the city council and it's just been steadily increasing.

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Speaker 2: I believe the dog Control Acts that we're working with

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Speaker 2: at the moment as in nineteen ninety six. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: so an overhall they're great idea.

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Speaker 1: What is it that you would change about the laws?

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Speaker 2: I mean from a trainer's perspective, I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: so many of the problems stem from just a lack

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Speaker 2: of education for dog owners. First of all, about you know,

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Speaker 2: breed specific requirements, what's actually involved in training a dog,

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Speaker 2: and also what the legal obligations are of dog owners.

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Speaker 2: Would you I'd love to see.

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Speaker 1: One of the things, Diana, that Auckland City Council appears

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Speaker 1: to be pushing for is the ability to detain what like,

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Speaker 1: they look at a dog, they go, well, that dog

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Speaker 1: looks dodgy as all hell. The ability to just detain

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Speaker 1: that dog rather than having to go through a lengthy

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Speaker 1: court process to be able to do that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that makes sense to me, doesn't it? That should be allowed.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it depends on what their criteria is.

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Speaker 2: If it's you know, the way that they identify some

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Speaker 2: of our band breeds, you know, the present Canario with it,

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Speaker 2: our physical characteristics, that would mean that they would classify

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Speaker 2: a dog as menacing by breed or whether or not

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Speaker 2: it's behavioral the officer has encountered the dog and they

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Speaker 2: have deemed them to be dangerous, And I mean, I

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Speaker 2: think it would depend on all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how much, By the way, how much does exercise

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Speaker 1: because one of the articles suggests that exercises actually a

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Speaker 1: real fundamental thing here, and if a dog isn't a

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Speaker 1: huge probably not getting enough of a run around.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, absolutely, that's what I mean by breed specific requirements.

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Speaker 2: You know, dogs like kind of huskies and collies, and

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Speaker 2: you know dogs like that, they require an enormous amount

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Speaker 2: of stimulation and enrichment and exercise, and so many of

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Speaker 2: them are not getting it. So of course, you know

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Speaker 2: the behaviors, you know, becoming dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're teaching your kids, because the problem is

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Speaker 1: that this is something that freaks parents out and other

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Speaker 1: dog owners obviously who generally know how to deal with it.

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Speaker 1: But if you're worried as a parent, what do you

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Speaker 1: teach your kids about how to approach a dog and

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Speaker 1: what to look for in order to keep them safe?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I mean, you know, I mean we teach our

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Speaker 2: kids pretty much, don't approach a dog. You know, if

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Speaker 2: a dog is friendly and approaching you, and you've had

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to ask the owner and is it okay?

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Speaker 2: If I say hello, then that's okay. But in general,

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Speaker 2: don't go to approach dogs. Definitely, don't approach dogs if

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Speaker 2: you don't know them. And if a dog's not making

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Speaker 2: it very clear that it wants to be friends with you,

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Speaker 2: then leave it.

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Speaker 1: Then all right, Hey, thank you, Diana, I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Diana Haggart, dog trainer at Ministry of Hounding. For more

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