Karen Walsh: Educate your neighbours on dog dangers

Last week, I wrote about the problems farmers face, with dogs killing their sheep and lambs, and the reasonable steps that both the farmer and dog owner should take to solve this problem.

Farmers are fully entitled to shoot dogs when they are out of control, in either a public or private land, under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.

Unfortunately, however, the question arises as to whether the farmer is liable to the dog owner, if the farmer shoots the dog.