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instead of improving their conditions, used the bare repression of their "protest" with the collars.

The two dogs were sequestrated and led to the local kennel and the man denounced to the tribunal of Urbino for violence on animals and for their detention in conditions not compatible with their nature and cause of serious sufferings for them.

Franco Biancani, the Chief of the Province Nucleus of Guardie Zoofile and responsible of the local Pesaro-Urbino section of ENPA, declared of having received and verified an anonymous denounce about the conditions of these dogs and that the man risked a condemn from 3 months to 1 year only for the violence, or a fine from 3000 to 15,000 .

This intervention has also allowed the sequestration of the electric collars that had been definitively banned in Italy, after a long cause, by a decree of the Ministry of Health (Ministero della Salute) of July 5th, 2005. This decree considers the use of these collars a violation of the art. n 727 of the Italian penal code, relative to violence on animals and it was confirmed by the sentence n. 43230 of 2002 of the 3rd Section of the Cassazione Court.

The further information I have to add to this new, to make it more complete for non-Italian readers, is that man will never go in prison because, in Italy, this is not anymore possible for penal condemns below 3 years that also include many crimes committed against persons and goods, not only against animals.

Furthermore, although their use is banned, their sale and purchase are not forbidden in Italy, as you can see from all the sites that offer them on Internet. What a strange Country, my poor Italy; it produces creative "laws with holes", like the gruyere cheese...

What I can hope, as animal lover, is that the strong fine to thaa man is effective, at least. The problem to prevent the use of these collars is to perform regular controls on dogs breeds and training centres, the most suspect of using them, but in a Country like Italy, where illegality is very diffused for the chronic absence of our institutions, this is the most difficult objective to reach.

References:

http://it.wik inews.org/wiki/Urbino

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