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AN IRISH RED Setter has died after taking part in Crufts 2015.
Its owners claim the dog, who won second in his class at the English dog show, perished after being poisoned.
However, it is unclear if it was an accident or something more sinister.
“I can only hope it wasn’t an act of jealousy by another competitor, but just a lunatic,” a co-owner’s husband told BBC News.
Another owner, Dee Milligan Bott said, “The post-mortem showed that two or three different poisons were used and that it is likely it was administered on Thursday morning; we’re now waiting for exact toxicology reports. Whoever did this knew what they were doing, trying to get exactly the right type of poison with a slow release.”
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for The Kennel Club, which operates Crufts, said the toxicology report is due next week and “until that time we cannot know the cause of this tragic incident”.
“We have spoken to his owners and our heartfelt sympathies go out to them,” she added.
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Thendara Satisfaction, also known as Jagger, was almost four years old. He collapsed and died after returning home to Belgium.
Milligan-Bott wrote on her Facebook page that Jagger had been killed by being fed cubed beef with poison “stitched into the meat”.
“This resulted in a very painful death for our beautiful boy,” Milligan-Bott wrote.
The timings from the autopsy make it clear the only place this could have been given to Jagger was while on his bench at Crufts. The police have been informed.
Fellow owner Aleksandra Lauwers wrote: “He loved man and he has been killed by a man!”
“To person who has done it, hope you can sleep well knowing you have killed our love, family member and best friend to our son,” Lauwers wrote on the social network.
Police in Belgium have launched an investigation with Dogworld.co.uk reporting that CCTV footage from Crufts will be examined.
The incident has shocked those attending Crufts, including TV presenter Clare Balding.
Everyone at #Crufts2015 horrified at death of Irish Setter Jagger & post-mortem found poison. Awful for all concerned http://t.co/8BvYS1TS28
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Isn’t HAP just the government using taxpayers money to pay other people’s mortgages? Use the money to build build build — although I do understand that people are desperate now for somewhere to live but HAP can’t be the answer long term
@Sean Minihane: Buying/building is preferable to paying rent to private landlords. At least the state owns the asset and can re use it after the tenant’s death. It also brings in rental income and provides security of tenure. Under the current scheme, the rent is going straight into a private landlord’s coffers.
@chiqey: HAP is just another world for rent allowance, and rent allowance has always existed, just as those needing rent allowance have always existed, be they renting a private or state rented house/apartment. Re: State houses: although being built, I think this idea of free houses is on the way out as it’s unsustainable. I think any the idea is ‘let the private sector handle the heavy lifting. In this way the government can collect even more tax. Financially, it makes more sense to governments, I would theorise.
@Keth Warsaw: yes on paper it might make sense financially for the gov to let the private side sort it out with HAP / rent allowance.
Tax take , no costs to maintain assets etc does seem attractive, but it isn’t a long term solution.
Carrot and stick approach to driving up property construction is needed. Sticks being vacant land taxes etc. Carrots being tax breaks of some sort. I know it’s not a popular view to help developers, but it’s the most effective way to promote construction.
@Keth Warsaw: It doesn’t make sense for the State to give private landlords €1Bn a year(&rising every year)on temporary insecure rentals through HAP,RS &RAS while no sense of urgency to build secure social housing and genuinely affordable housing for a growing population!
One of the main reasons for homelessness is tenants getting Notices of Termination from landlords and we can see that homelessness is increasing every year.Smaller landlords are at a disadvantage compared to “vulture funds”.The Business Post had an article in 2017:”Revealed:How vulture funds paid €20,000 in tax on assets of €20Bn”.
CSO suggested before this year that in 28years our population will grow by another million people.Ireland needs adequate secure affordable housing stock now, let alone in 28years!If HAP etc are still used during those years as housing then that would at least be €28Bn given for private rented insecure accommodation!
Also what will happen to those working and struggling to pay rents when they retire,they won’t be able to afford those rents then?The irony is that rents can be double or treble the cost of a mortgage payment.
@chiqey: just to confirm – small landlords can’t refuse HAP..in a lot of cases tenants move in and then advise they are HAP tenants !! I agree with you Govn should be providing housing for these people but the fact is – its far cheaper to let landlords look after them and put up with all the hassle that comes with them otherwise it wouldn’t be happening !!
@Barbara Coleman: I should have added that openly stating that you refuse Hap is the issue. But you can easily refuse a HAP tenant by screening via references and employment data being gathered.
@Paolo Fandango: Bottom line is that HAP is not the solution, we now know that and have done for years. Build state owned homes to rent at affordable prices before we fall off the precipice
@Benny McHale: the government buying all these houses would costs a massive amount of money up front and then they would be responsible for paying to maintain and modernise them constantly. They would also be down all the private landlord tax income.
@Benny McHale: You’ve hit on a big issue at the moment which needs to be seriously looked at. There are thousands of 3 and 4 bed council house’s with 1 or 2 pensioners living in them. It’s inappropriate use of the housing stock. This “home for life” model needs to be changed.
@Paolo Fandango: it is illegal to refuse HAP. A couple can be both working and still qualify for HAP. What is wrong with tenant’s that are in receipt of HAP?
@Paolo Fandango: What are you not allowed to talk about, the way you stereotype all HAP recipients as being work-shy bad tenants and badly behaved despite the income off being €45K gross, a salary many hard working people are still well below? Or are you not allowed to talk about some landlords not wanting the hassle of a bit of paperwork or having to have the property up to a certain standard for it? Which one is it? No one’s stopping you from expressing yourself
@Megan Finnegan Ward: if it was a low friction way for landlords to let their properties then it would absolutely be much more heavily subscribed. But unfortunately it isn’t.
Also, I didn’t stereo type anyone. You actually did with your assumptions about landlords.
@Paolo Fandango: Are you denying that some don’t want to get involved because they see it as a bit of hassle? Sounds like you’re contradicting yourself there. Or are you denying how many people stereotype all recipients as British scroungers? I’ve asked the question, what is the reason some won’t take it and why aren’t you allowed to talk about it?
@Paolo Fandango: HAP tenants are considered higher risk because they often don’t have a source of income that can pay the mortgage. The local authorities should stand over the rent that is paid or not paid so that the landlord always gets paid. That would make HAP tenants far more desirable and landlords would be tripping over each other to get HAP tenants in.
@Megan Finnegan Ward: I’ve checked my original comment and there’s nothing I’ve said to contradict myself.
My original point still stands. If it was a low friction way to rent a property then landlords would have no issue with it. The market would welcome it with open arms.
But, it doesn’t. This could be due to a mix of the reasons you’ve mentioned.
@Paolo Fandango: ‘There’s a reason no one wants to open up…we’re not allowed to talk about it of course’. What’s this big secret thing that everyone knows but you’re not allowed to talk about?
@Megan Finnegan Ward: your incessant efforts to get answers to these questions are the very reason that they are things that can’t be discussed openly.
@Megan Finnegan Ward: well there is a higher probability of problems with tenants who are in receipt of HAP, this may not be down to the tenant as I’m aware of a case where the tenant paid their rent to the council but it was coded to another account and as it looked as if the rent was in arrears the HAP payment to the landlord was stopped for a number of months. With demand for rentals so high why would a landlord take on extra hassle for no good reason?
@The next small thing: Great, a very simple valid that you’ve just discussed openly, do you think that’s what Paolo insists we aren’t allowed to talk about? Why wouldn’t anyone be able to openly talk about potential admin issues?
@blue exile: the housing issues atm were created by misguided populist Gov policies and now they’re trying to fix it with more misguided populist Gov policies. The problem is the only alternative Gov atm is a SF led one and they’re proposing even more misguided populist policies that would make the problems a lot worse.
@Cian Martin: While youre correct, the country isnt full, theres plenty of space to build on, theres plenty of vacant properties to be refurbished etc., there is a shortage of habitible properties.
As to the arguement “there were more people living here 200 years ago”.
I hear this thrown up every sonoften and while it is factually true, the conditions they lived in were abomnible.
A city center townhouse that once housed one family and servents, turned into a tenemant that housed up to 200 people, ramshackle cottages, no indoor plumbing or electricity, barely having shelter from the elements, absolutely no suitable premises. People literally starving to death. Disease ridden with low life expectancy.
To simply quote population figures of a century or two ago is simply ridiculous.
@Susan Keane: oh, excuse me… I’ll let you provide evidence. However I’ll point you to places like choice based letting and various other government sites which have strict rules on such things.
@Aidan Walsh: Aidan, I’m not posting merely for the purpose of engaging in a debate with you. This is happening. You can quote any rules/guidelines/circulars that you wish but it does not take away from the fact.
It’s silly the government taking 50% of the rent from the landlords apparently and giving it back as HAP payments to someone else surly there is a different system to this ,year on year more landlords exiting the market making it impossible for rents to come down
Locking rents only makes it cheaper for some while others are fleeced, by all means control the rents but not at the rate it is being done
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