Only the first place?

[Kris]

GENEVA (Reuters) - French film star Brigitte Bardot on Friday slammed a new Geneva law requiring that all dogs be muzzled in public parks, adopted this week after a toddler was mauled by a pit bull.

"I don't think that a Yorkshire or a lapdog presents a great danger to the population," Bardot told the daily Tribune de Geneve.

"Unfortunately, dogs are paying the price for the ignorance, irresponsibility and bad behaviour of their masters," the animal rights activist added.

The Geneva government's decision on Monday to require muzzling of the city's 30,000 dogs has sparked public outrage, and calls for measures to restrain only pit-bull and bulldogs.

"We could also muzzle those who drive us nuts on public transport with their loud and edifying telephone conversations," one irate reader said in a letter to the same daily.

The Geneva toddler has undergone five operations and remains hospitalised after being disfigured by a pit bull earlier this month. The incident followed nationwide shock last year when a Turkish boy was torn to pieces and killed by a dog near Zurich.

Could this start happening elsewhere? Very sad.

Kris

[briarlow]

Like everything else in life everyone suffers because of the odd few incidents! For people with brains it's a shame that they don't look at the real cause of the problem, macho owners who don't care less about their dogs!