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My brother is a policeman who owns a pitbull.
His dog is amazing and has never shown any aggression towards me, his children (two under the age of 5) nor have I heard of it being aggressive towards anyone else.
This type of behaviour is a reflection of the owner and the amount of time that they spend on training the dog and how much (or little) the dog is exercised.
Any dog (mine included) has the possibility of being aggressive as they are all born that way, being hunters like the wolves.
It is unfortunate that pitbulls have more of an inclination to be this way, as that is generally what they are bred for.
It is my opinion that dogs in general should be policed harder than they currently are, especially dogs that are bred for aggression, pitbulls being one of them.
Shame on the owners of dogs who attack people and hopefully all dogs who attack people are immediately put down, as I would do to mine if she did this type of damage on a person.
Kia kaha, Miss, I hope and pray that you recover well from your injuries and continue to live a full and happy life.
EMILY McGOWAN
Rotorua
"Removal of financial safety net inevitable" said the headline in the editorial.
If you blindly accept the only things available where savings can be made are KiwiSaver, Working for Families and student loans, that may be true. I can even agree borrowing $380 a week isn't sustainable.
But I can't accept that in times such as those we presently face, there was anything remotely fair about granting tax cuts for the wealthy. Or that as things get worse, rolling back these cuts is not one option to help balance the books.
Many others have raised the same argument.
I have yet to see an answer to this proposal. We are left with the obvious; that this government doesn't want to offend those who benefited from the cuts and are going to the polls in a few months.
The other elephant in the room is capital gains tax. Numerous articles have appeared pointing out the almost inevitability of it one day, pointing out too that Australia, the UK and US all have it and the fairness of it in the wider scheme of things.
It's almost inevitable the Key Government would discount these in seeking to balance the books and tell us the three things are the only options for making savings.
They are more and more showing themselves as a government of the right. When more and more families are struggling to make ends meet, blatantly preserving the privileges of the wealthy is only going to divide our society even further.
DON PARKES
Rotorua
I live quite near to Rotorua Girls' High School and Malfroy Primary School, and I am finding that every night, precisely on the dot, a strange noise sounds out, like a school bell consisting of three "booops".
Although I'm not sure if it is a school bell, I don't know why this irritating sound is going off in the darkest hours of the night, and I can't be the only one to hear this.
I would appreciate any enlightenment on this mystery.
T RICHARDS
Rotorua
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