The Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has kept in abeyance its March 12, 2024 proceedings imposing a ban on the sale and breeding of certain dogs classified as “ferocious and dangerous for human life” besides insisting upon sterilization of such dogs already being kept as pets.
It was on March 12 this year that a Joint Secretary in the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, under the Ministry, had written to Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories to ban the sale and breeding of certain dogs classified as “ferocious and dangerous for human life.”
The ban was imposed on Pitbull Terrier, Tosa Inu, American Staffordshire Terrier, Fila Brasileiro, Dogo Argentino, American Bulldog, Boerboel, Kangal, Central Asian Shepherd, Caucasian Shepherd, South Asian Shepherd, Tornjak, Sarplaninac, Japanese Tosa, Akita, Mastiffs (boerbulls), Rottweiler, Terriers, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Wolf dogs, Canario, Akbash, Moscow Guard, Cane Corso and every dog of the type commonly known as Bandog.
