Petition for the immediate withdrawal of the Licensing Regime

This is a ridiculous attempt to regulate that which cannot be regulated. I used to be quite a serious competitor in dog-training competitions, and there are parallels between how you get the correct responses out of working dogs and running dogs.

Very early on, I learned that you do not shout commands that you cannot enforce. If the dog is at the far end of the field, and it is determined to something you don’t want it to, unless the misdemeanor is very serious, such as attempting to eat somebody’s brat, the best thing to do is for you to pretend that you didn’t notice.

If you do a song and dance, the dog will ignore you, because you can’t enforce the command. Let this happen a few times, and the dog will get the impression that you can’t enforce commands, and will begin to ignore more and more of them.

Well, if the powers that be want to undermine their own credibility, who are we to stop them?