Government response

Myth bust: Daily Telegraph makes claims about dangerous dogs rules

Law abiding home owners will not be penalised and burglars will not be protected.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 24 April 2012

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

The myth: The Daily Telegraph has reported that homeowners could be prosecuted if their dogs attack burglars as a result of the proposed changes to the dangerous dogs law.

The truth: Law abiding home owners will not be penalised and burglars will not be protected. Our proposed extension of the law is to protect innocent people - like postal workers and midwives - who need to go onto other people’s property to do their jobs, not trespassers who have entered another person’s property with unlawful intent.

Published 24 April 2012