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LONDON \u2014 It seems the British government’s bark is worse than its bite.<\/p>\n
Authorities say they will not require all dog owners to take out insurance — just days after proposing the measure in a bid to clamp down on dangerous canines<\/a>.<\/p>\n The plan would have made millions of dog owners buy insurance against the risk of their pet attacking someone.<\/p>\n The government said it wanted to stop people who use pit bulls and other aggressive dogs to intimidate others, but critics said the idea was unfair.<\/p>\n Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said Tuesday that he had ruled out compulsory insurance because he didn’t want to penalize responsible dog owners.<\/p>\n The opposition Conservatives accused ministers of turning the issue into a "political dog’s dinner."<\/p>\n — Associated Press<\/p>\n Animal news on the go: Follow Unleashed on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Photo: A pit bull relaxes on a picnic table at a dog park in L.A.’s Silver Lake neighborhood in 1998. Credit: Al Seib \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LONDON \u2014 It seems the British government’s bark is worse than its bite. Authorities say they will not require all dog owners to take out insurance — just days after proposing the measure in a bid to clamp down on dangerous canines. The plan would have made millions of dog owners buy insurance against the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}