Denise Hall talks to a veterinary nurse in Co Cork about new laws on cruelty

WHY is it that within weeks of two very highly-publicised dog attacks, Minister John Gormley has reacted by scheduling further changes to the Control of Dogs Acts, while months and even years after tireless campaigning to bring the 1911 animal protection up to date has gone virtually unheard?

IT was a bird-brained idea climbing more than 70ft to a crow’s nest at the top of a tree, but after eight days of rainwater and little else this famished feline was finally rescued.