Poster 25 states "dog control officers are doing there job yes but are sneaky and coniving", some surely are to everyone's detriment. I hope valuable lessons were taken on board from this incident. DNA is the way to go if paternity is in question & not expensive. Poster #18 makes valid points. Her'es hoping since finding this article, incidents as this are never copied by any authority, it's tantamount to murder IMHO

think firedog you need to know the facts about everything before you post your stupid wee comment how do you know im not a god onwer????? 1,i still own jass and shes heathy happy and has had other litters,2 i never singed consent to have then destroyed i was tricked into thinkng i was getting them back,3 i had to come up wit 600 dollers a pup to get them returned.4,jass was not spayed because shes not a menecing dog by menecing i mean dangerous,5 the media made me look bad as an owner because of the seriosness of why they took the pups in the first place.i have nothing to prove to anybody the dog control officers are doing there job yes but are sneaky and coniving to the point though im over it and hurt that you think you know the facts you dont so dont comment on my sitch went you know jack.by the way jass says gidday thanx

Sometimes the people who say they are qualified in Canine Psychology and hold a dip. in Animal Care arent good dog owners themselves!

Some of you should get all the facts before jumping in and stuffing both feet inside your mouths, for a start the media "ill informed" us to by neglecting to give us all the facts 1. The pups were not pure breed rottys... 2.Neglected to say they were signed over by the owner (thereby giving ownership to the council)... 3. That it was in fact the owner that had found homes for some of the pups, going by his ownership record not a good reference... In reference to one of the comments on here "All dogs must be registered BEFORE ATTAINING THE AGE OF 3 MONTHS!!!!!" Animal control is an absolutely thankless job and when you have a bunch of "tree hugging, seal patters" working for an organisantion like the SPCA in Invercargill getting on their high horses this is the result. I have a very good working relationship with the SPCA in the area that I work in, however I think they got it wrong this time. PS: Yes I work in Animal Control, and I happen to own a Rottweiler and no I'm not an animal hater or "killer".

You've nearly all spoken with complete common sense from an obviously educated position. That's heartening in itself. Perhaps the pollies and the media will begin the get the message that we've spotted their anti-dog ownership agenda and the lies told by the likes of Tim Shadbolt to defend the indefensible - namely Breed Specific Legislation, and the sort of people happy to kill innocent puppies for a living. Pit Bull crosses indeed. How cowardly of him. Does anyone know how we KNOW the sire of those pups was a Mastiff?

This is disgusting. Those puppies did nothing wrong. Rottys are a beautiful breed and are not dangerous unless the owner raises them to be which is like any other dog. I own a Rotty and he is a big chicken, Bark and bail is what we have taught him. They are very smart animals and those puppies would of been re-homed quickly.

I find this very sad and people dont realise that small dogs are just as dangerous.

As I have said on countless blogs and articles, it's all in the training and socialisation, and thus how responsible the owner is. These puppies, with the right owners, could have been fantastic lovely family pets. But now, thanks to a bunch of idiots believing breed dictates everything, these pups are dead. Shame on you ICC. Breed is never a set temperament. It's down to training and socialisation.

And, I have to point this out - my dog is not neutered, yet because we trained and socialised him, he has never been agressive. Ever. All other dogs he greets with a wag of his tail and licking and sniffing, and the one time a Golden Retriever tried to attack him (biting him around the throat no less) he was just trying to get away.

Though, having said that, I fully promote the neutering/spaying of ALL mutts and all purebreds not of breed quality. There are far too many puppies in this world without idiots breeding more. Breeding should be left to the responsible pure breeders breeding quality breed example dogs to better and maintain the breed, and showing/competing them to prove this worth (unless they are farm dogs, bred for purpose). That's it!

Perhaps the council should be doing more on dog owner education seeing as they are destroying so many dogs. Why does Invercargill have such a high kill rate? Sounds like a trigger happy council who probably don't like dogs to start. They don't seem to know much about them anyway. It is hard enough owning a rottweiler (with general public thinking they are mean nasty killers)without some idiot going on national tv and making them out to be agressive dogs who should all be shot at birth. What an awful attitude. Perhaps someone should start another facebook for supporting rotties or powerbreed dogs in general ie pitts, staffys amstaffs etc. At least almost all the posts here are from people with common sense and sound knowledge - maybe we should all work for ICC seeing as they don't know a chihuahua from a german shepherd. If we can see this why can't they???

These types of things are happening in Councils around the country but ICC’s 40-50% kill rate compared to neighbouring Dunedin’s 11% (along with this whole sorry episode) is a disgrace. What piece of legislation allowed the seeking out and destroying of 6 week old pups? Or has the ICC just decided to work outside the law? I strongly suspect there is a legal case to answer here as to why the litter of a dog who has not caused anyone any damage was uplifted simply because they MAY offend somewhere down the track! I’m assuming that neither the mother or father were registered as Dangerous Dogs or they would have been spayed/neutered as per the DD legislation and the litter would not have eventuated! Does the ICC encourage people to desex their dogs via a reduction in fees? Do they educate or insist on fencing? I suspect their time would be better spent doing some of this ‘real’ work. If such rules were encouraged - these scenarios would never evolve. The Council could have been constructive instead and solved the problem - waiving the $1200 they (unrealistically) expected the owner to find in a week - and given him the chance to spay Jazz (for so much less) or maybe qualify for a free spay from the SPCA 's desexing mobile unit when its there. The pups could have found their homes thru the SPCA (as offered) and would be desexed as per their rules – end of story. Unfortunately the Dog Control laws are made in Central Govt often by people often lacking in any real knowledge of canine behaviour and then enacted by a Council Dog Control gestapo at Local Govt level showing similar ignorance. Dogs no longer have to actually offend to be judged and destroyed – its now all about how people ‘feel’– not how anything actually is – not good enough. The discrimination involved in dog ownership has become very apparent - ask any responsible owner about the abuse and aggro they commonly experience now. The plot has indeed been lost....(Yes I'm qualified in Canine Psychology and hold a dip. in Animal Care.)

i have been chased buy a chawawa b4 is that a threat?, will they shoot them to