Examination of Witness | Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill | Public Bill Committees Q Finally, Mike, in your experience in Scotland, are you picking up increased numbers of dogs coming in—you mentioned dogs from Romania—tha
Examination of Witness | Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill | Public Bill Committees Q We touched on some previous evidence about the identification of dogs, and databases as well.
Examination of Witness | Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill | Public Bill Committees Q That is really helpful. The legislation will hopefully be able to close the loopholes in some of the other laws as well.
Examination of Witness | Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill | Public Bill Committees Q Thank you, Mike, for appearing before us today.
Examination of Witness | Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill | Public Bill Committees Thank you. Hopefully the Minister and the Government can help us through this process.
Examination of Witness | Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill | Public Bill Committees Q Finally, do you think the Bill could be strengthened if we were a bit clearer in some of the definitions and the criteria?
Examination of Witness | Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill | Public Bill Committees Q So the numbers could be low, but there could potentially be people who are keeping primates, not as pets, and who are affiliated with zoo
Examination of Witness | Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill | Public Bill Committees Q Thank you; that is helpful. There has been a lot of debate about a ban versus licensing. Can you give us your perspective?
Examination of Witness | Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill | Public Bill Committees Q You have come on to my follow-up question.
Examination of Witness | Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill | Public Bill Committees Q Good. I am going to duck around the species a little bit, Chair, with your forgiveness. I want to go back to primates.
