More breed specific legislation ballsups.

A family in Merseyside have been left heartbroken after Merseyside Police informed them they had mistakenly destroyed their family pet dog, Oscar.
( Again, I'm sharing this with you lot because it's a terribly sad story that newspapers just aren't interested in, and I'm cross about it. )

In other dog news, rescues are apparently filling up with handed-in rottweilers after that poor child was killed at the new year. I have no special brief for the staffy type dogs that are being seized, apart from that they don't deserve such treatment, but I've always wanted a rottie since our village shop used to have one as the shop dog when I was small. She was a very gentle big girl. Good thing people don't decide to hand in their relatives when murders are committed by other people of similar origin to them ...