Activist: Sedate your pets tonight

NALINI DIAL, animal-rights activist, is urging pet-owners to secure their pets indoors for Old Year’s night and sedate them.

“To all pet owners, we advise to ensure your pets are safely secured and do not be too convinced that people will abide by the warnings from the Minister (Stuart Young) and the Commissioner of Police (CoP Gary Griffith). Dogs should not be left tied on chains nor in kennels where they can get stuck trying to escape through spaces and burglar proofing.

“Ask your vet for sedatives to calm them and put them inside with you until the noise is over.” While noting Minister of National Security Stuart Young’s ban on the sale of scratch-bombs, and CoP Gary Griffith’s warning against firework misuse she was not reassured that we will not suffer the usual distress to our elderly, children and animals due to people’s inconsiderate use of very loud fireworks.

“We live in a very lawless society and we know that many persons have already purchased their stock of fireworks to be used tonight.” She complained on no enforcement of the Section 99 and 101 of the Summary Offences Act that bans discharge of fireworks in towns.

“Complaints to the police fall on deaf ears and we get little or absolutely no assistance from them. We therefore are calling on the CoP Gary Griffith to ensure that his officers act more readily and willingly this year, and give more attention to our complaints.

“We suggests that mobile police patrols can be done continuously throughout the night through all the boroughs and highly populated and residential areas.”