Petitions:

We are regularly asked for links to petitions connected with breed specific legislation and other issues relating to dogs.

We have compiled the details and links to petitions which are open and also you can browse through some of the closed petitions to see what the outcome or response was.

Re: UK Government Petitions (the petition.parliament.uk website) at 10,000 signatures the government will respond and at 100,000 signatures the petition will be considered for debate in Parliament.

Click on the link to go to each petition and read the full details, if you agree with what the petition is asking for please sign and share.

Petitions help to keep up the pressure for smarter fairer dog law and raise vital awareness on the issues.

If you have petition details you would like to submit, you are welcome to send us the details.

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Bad owners are to blame not the breed - don't ban the XL bully

Delay the Ban on rehoming and owning XL Bully dogs for 18 months

Ensure tenants can't be evicted for owning an exempted XL Bully dog

Record and publish numbers of companion animals euthanised in England

Blue Cross Petition - Call on the Government to Repeal BSL and until such a time, allow responsible rehoming organisations to find homes for stray banned types so that re-homable pets are not needlessly killed.

UK Dog Breed Specific Legislation Is Discriminatory, Ineffective And Should End Now by Sir Patrick Stewart and Care2 Team.

Revoke or Amend S.I 2015 No.138 & Save Lives

Open Keepership for Prohibited Dogs

The following petitions have now closed:

Replace Breed Specific Legislation with a new statutory framework

Repeal Breed Specific Legislation

Reclassify the theft of a pet to a specific crime in its own right

Stop the rising number of ear-cropped dogs in the UK

Ban the sale of puppies by pet shops & all commercial 3rd party dealers

Make dog theft a specific criminal offence

UK Government to ban the sale of electronic training aids for dogs.

Reform the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and Repeal Breed Specific Legislation-CLOSED

Petition for Sky - Let her live. 

Repeal Sec 1 of Dangerous Dogs Act, Apply Breed Neutral, Responsible Pet Ownership Laws-CLOSED

Put an end to Breed Specific Laws (BSL)-CLOSED

Ban Breed Specific Legislation-Government Response-CLOSED:

Amend the Dangerous Dogs Act to allow for fair, uniform return of seized dogs-CLOSED:

Repeal SI 138 and allow exempted dogs who pose no danger, to live with keepers-CLOSED:               

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