LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Sir,
I write in response to your story ‘Dogs to Sniff Groins in Public' (Observer, January 19).
While I applaud the new law and firmly believe that, in the interests of hygiene, underwear should be changed at least every month, there is an issue here which no-one seems to have taken onboard.
As someone who has spent her life around dogs, I can assure your readers that prolonged exposure to underwear fumes can be fatal. Anyone who has ever watched an innocent creature slowly asphyxiate as it falls prey to Pernicious Animal Nasal Toxicity Syndrome (PANTS) will agree that this is a horrible way for an animal to die.
Thus, while our boys (and girls) in blue might be ridding us of a social evil by using sniffer dogs to detect the unclean, they are unwittingly risking the lives of their canine colleagues as they do so.
For those of us who are not willing stand by while innocent creatures sniff themselves to death, more information and a petition can be found at www.muzzlefresh.org.
Every signature counts.
Yours etc.,
Belinda ‘Buffy’ Bulle-Mastyffe
Withering
The Editor replies:
Do any of our readers have an amusing or heartwarming story about PANTS? The Observer will pay £10 for each one published.
24/01/07 @ 19:20