Animal Welfare Bill is long overdue

I fully support John Fitzgerald’s letter (May 4) and his abhorrence of the barbaric activities of cock fighting and badger baiting.

Animal Welfare Bill is long overdue

Such acts should not be tolerated by any civilised society.

The Animal Welfare Bill is long overdue. Almost a century has passed since any legalisation has been introduced to protect the animals. While this bill is greatly welcomed by animal lovers, its effectiveness will be measured on if, and how, it is enforced.

As a nation, our reputation for our lack of care and indifference to the suffering of our animals is shameful, compounded by a similar attitude displayed by successive governments. Ignorance is no excuse. We have all read and seen the images of dogs and puppies incarcerated in hell holes of puppy farms, the horses dying of starvation in the fields and the greyhounds shot and dumped. Such suffering is an indictment on us humans who consider ourselves the most evolved of the species.

Catherine O’Brien

St Margaret’s Rd

Finglas

Dublin 11

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