6 October 2008
Alok Sharma, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, met recently with the Kennel Club to voice his support for the Kennel Club’s campaign to ban electric shock collars in the UK.
The primary objective of the Kennel Club, which was founded in 1873, is 'to promote in every way, the general improvement of dogs' and aims to offer dog owners an unparalleled source of information, experience and advice on dog welfare, dog health, dog training and dog breeding.
Electric shock collars are worn around a dog’s neck and work either via a remote control with various settings which, when pressed, delivers an electric shock to the neck of a dog or delivers an electric shock to a dog automatically when a dog barks. The Welsh Assembly plans to legislate against the use of electric shock collars and also any product that induces a shock from which a dog cannot escape.
Alok Sharma commented: “I am pleased to be able to add my voice to the Kennel Club’s call for a full ban on the use of electric shock collars in the UK. Dog lovers in the UK will be disturbed greatly by this rather cruel method of training and controlling dogs. This is no way to treat man’s best friend and dogs must surely react much better to positive reward-based training methods such as recall training, clicker training and retractable leads which build a relation of mutual trust and liking between owner and dog rather than a relationship based on fear and pain.”
Holly Lee, Public Affairs Manager at the Kennel Club, said: "We are delighted to have Alok on board with the campaign to ban electric shock collars which are cruel and unnecessary training devices. Professionals such as the police and armed forces do not use electric shock collars to train their animals as they recognise that dogs respond much better to positive training methods.”
To find out more information about electric shock collars please go to www.banshockcollars.org.uk
The primary objective of the Kennel Club, which was founded in 1873, is 'to promote in every way, the general improvement of dogs' and aims to offer dog owners an unparalleled source of information, experience and advice on dog welfare, dog health, dog training and dog breeding.
Electric shock collars are worn around a dog’s neck and work either via a remote control with various settings which, when pressed, delivers an electric shock to the neck of a dog or delivers an electric shock to a dog automatically when a dog barks. The Welsh Assembly plans to legislate against the use of electric shock collars and also any product that induces a shock from which a dog cannot escape.
Alok Sharma commented: “I am pleased to be able to add my voice to the Kennel Club’s call for a full ban on the use of electric shock collars in the UK. Dog lovers in the UK will be disturbed greatly by this rather cruel method of training and controlling dogs. This is no way to treat man’s best friend and dogs must surely react much better to positive reward-based training methods such as recall training, clicker training and retractable leads which build a relation of mutual trust and liking between owner and dog rather than a relationship based on fear and pain.”
Holly Lee, Public Affairs Manager at the Kennel Club, said: "We are delighted to have Alok on board with the campaign to ban electric shock collars which are cruel and unnecessary training devices. Professionals such as the police and armed forces do not use electric shock collars to train their animals as they recognise that dogs respond much better to positive training methods.”
To find out more information about electric shock collars please go to www.banshockcollars.org.uk
