Spinoff: Walk your dog 3 times a day -- or be fined in......

Turin, Italy


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ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- Dog owners in Turin will be fined up to $650 if they don't walk their pets at least three times a day, under a new law from the city's council.

People will also be banned from dyeing their pets' fur or 'any form of animal mutilation' for merely aesthetic motives such as docking dogs' tails, under the law about to be passed in the northern Italian city.

'In Turin it will be illegal to turn one's dog into a ridiculous fluffy toy,' the city's La Stampa daily reported.

Italians can already be fined up to 10,000 euros and spend a year in prison if found guilty of torturing or abandoning their pets, but Turin's new rules go into much greater detail.

Dogs may be led for walks by people on bicycles, the rules say, 'but not in a way that would tire the animal too much.'


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my question is...are you gonna ask the dog how many times you were walked in a day?

Re: Spinoff: Walk your dog 3 times a day -- or be fined in......

That's what I was going to ask!

Re: Spinoff: Walk your dog 3 times a day -- or be fined in......

I think it's a good idea but hard to enforce - what about older dogs who don't want to walk that much? Or older owners who can't get out that much, and the dogs are used to it??