new law, required to walk your dog 3 times day

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ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- 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."

 

I just saw this in another forum, cant say I disagree with most of it, at least they are pretty active in getting people into court and paying for abuse, 10,000€ is approximately $15,000 (give or take a thousand). The walking, I havent been to Italy but if its anything like a lot of Europe a lot of people live in apartments and the houses dont have much land (large back yards)....in general.
Not sure about the bike thing, what will they do? call out the "pooped out puppy police".
Also not sure exactly what they mean about turining pets into 'fluffy toys'....they dont want them 'pampered'?

 

That probably comes as a relief to some dogs!

Is there a minimum amount of time for eack walk?

 

In Munich there were alot of laws like that, I can't remember exactly what they were. One said something like you must check on your dog every few hours. People there really cared for there dogsand cats. I got used to bringing Luther everywhere with me. He'd come to the restaraunt with us and then go to sleep under the table while we ate. It was really nice, but I once saw someone taking advantage of it in the mall, this lady was walking her dog inside and it lifted up its leg and peed evereywhere. I know that is something you csan't control, but you should at least bring something to clean it up

 

Thats what I love about living here, I can go out any time of the day and its great seeing people walking their dogs, sitting outside cafes (sometimes inside) with them, they are allowed in the bars, the stores, Ive only ever seen one lift its leg in a store though and there was someone with a mop and bucket pretty quick, I just wish that people would take baggies with them to pick up the c**p from the pavements though. The laws are pretty strict, they have DDL's, I think (if I read it right, my German is not that good yet) any dog over 45# has to pass leash and muzzle laws, which is not necessarily a bad thing as it puts all the responsibility on the owners to keep thier dogs under control (can vary from city to city) I was told that breeders are limited to no more than 6 puppies per litter!! but I havent found a translation on that so Im not sure and that again my vary depending on city.

 

That law sounds good for both the dogs and the walkers.
I had to laugh the other day. My neghbor who is on the hefty side, to say the least, finally got a dog for his eight year old son. They adopted a real cute friendly dog from the shelter. Every afternoon the boys takes the dog for a walk around the neighborhood followed by his dad. Is his dad walking behind? NOOOOO- dad rides in his car following along. It's to funny.
I have found Europeans much more accepting of dogs in their society. In Paris dogs can go anywhere with one exception, PARKS. Poor pups don't know what grass feels like but I must say that the street crews in Paris do an exceptional job of keeping the streets and sidewalks immaculate.

 

Ive noticed here that dogs dont seem to be around parks with kids swings etc in but there are a lot of wooded areas, pathways through fields, all within about a 20 minute walk away. Ive been here since November and for the amount of dogs Ive seen outside Ive only seen a couple without being on a leash, all but one had someone nearby, the one that looked like it was lost was in a busy shopping area and looked frantic as it ran in and out of stores....I hope he found his owner.

 

"Also not sure exactly what they mean about turining pets into 'fluffy toys'....they dont want them 'pampered'?"

I was in Rome last September I did see a lot of dogs, but there are no parks, so I think its meant for people foe example people that live IN NYC, where you dont have access to yards and parks but the dogs still need to go out and get exercised

It means you cant dye your dog for st paddys day or pink or any other cosmetic thing.

I have heard the Europe has a very low abandoned pet population because they do love their pets so much, they are not a throw away society like we are.

I also read in London its against the leaw to keep an indoor cat, they feel its hinhumane to have your cat indoors. I posted the srticle ahwile back here.

 

I didnt know about keeping a cat indoors being against the law but I havent lived there for a long time, most of the people that I knew when I did live there let them out. I would never let mine out in California, the last place I lived was in the desert not too far from the mountains, a lot of Coyotes, busy road.
Again I couldnt say what its like in UK for abandoned pets, I know it used to be really not much different than the US, go onto any council estate and there would be dogs loose all over the place, a lot of them would be sitting on the doorstep waiting to go inside, the shelters were always pretty busy and a 'small' rescue place that I worked at there had on average about 80 dogs....it might have changed since then though. I know over here there was a city shelter that closed down a couple of years ago due to not having enough dogs. They must be doing something right.
I was looking at a Doberman rescue centre a couple of months ago in Dusseldorf and it seems that probably about 80% of their dogs were rescued from Spain, Portugal, mostly.
Cant wait to be able to 'improve' on the language skills so I can look into all this a bit more :?

 

at least 3 walks a day??? if their definition of a walk is the same as mine then thats absolutely ridiculous!