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Speaker 1: The Southland District Council is cracking down on dog owners

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Speaker 1: that who aren't following the rules. This is because the

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Speaker 1: number of infringement notices issued in the year to June

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Speaker 1: is up fifty percent on the year before. Most of

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Speaker 1: these notices are the unregistered dogs, but there's also an

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Speaker 1: increase in the number of dogs biting people. Rob Scott

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Speaker 1: is the Mayor of South London with me. Now, hey, Rob,

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Speaker 1: how are you very well? Thank you? So what you

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Speaker 1: guys say you're going to crack down, but what are

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Speaker 1: you actually going to do? What does this mean?

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Speaker 2: It's cracking down to focus on the irresponsible owners, so

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Speaker 2: we're not having to have everyone else pay for the minority.

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Speaker 2: I think too often in today's will you get the

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Speaker 2: lowest common denominator kind of affecting everyone and everyone else

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Speaker 2: paying for it. So we're trying to not back to

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Speaker 2: the majority of our good dog owners by not having

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Speaker 2: to increase the dog feeds for them and just targeting

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Speaker 2: those that aren't playing by the rules.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but what are you going to take the dogs

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Speaker 1: off these people?

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Speaker 2: Oh? That's that's the last resort. But yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: now all of our team on the ground that they're

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Speaker 2: real people, they're great people, and it's focusing and of

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Speaker 2: the gaugery. And sead that in that meeting that in

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Speaker 2: the article that you're referring to, the there's about five

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Speaker 2: interactions with staff before an infringement has given. So we're

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Speaker 2: working with people, but you're just targeting those that are

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Speaker 2: actually breaking the rules rather than making those that are

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Speaker 2: abiding by them having to pay for it.

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Speaker 1: Rob, what are your options between So you've you've issued

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Speaker 1: five notices to them, Now they've got an infringement, and

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Speaker 1: last result is taking the dogs away? What can you

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Speaker 1: do between now and then?

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Speaker 2: Well, you kind of hope that those infringement notices are

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Speaker 2: going to actually get paid and and I think what

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Speaker 2: happens is once you get to that level that hopefully

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Speaker 2: the lesson has learned and the behavior has changed and

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Speaker 2: people carry on, and then those that don't, you've actually

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Speaker 2: got to look at their ability and should they actually

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Speaker 2: be owning a dog because they are actually letting it down,

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Speaker 2: metting the side down for everyone.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now what's going on with the biting? Why are

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Speaker 1: these dogs biting people?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't know. And then that's something that ad

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Speaker 2: And said in the meeting that they're currently looking into.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm not actually too sure on that one,

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Speaker 2: and I've actually seen too much of the info behind that,

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Speaker 2: so I can't sort of go into that one at

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Speaker 2: the moment too much. Sorry, but yeah, it does seem

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Speaker 2: a bit strange.

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, good on you for having a crack at

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Speaker 1: these guys and go hard. I don't think anybody's gonna

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Speaker 1: feel sorry for them. They're obviously recidivists.

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