Dog owners’ duties

SIR – Your report (March 27) about the rising number of dog attacks on livestock makes no mention of the responsibilities of dog-owners to train and manage their pets. Were these people prosecuted? If not, why not?

The number of people owning dogs has increased rapidly in recent years, but there seems to be a rapidly decreasing understanding of what a dog is. They are not human; nor do they adopt human ways of behaving.

They are pack animals with an instinct to chase and kill prey. They can be trained not to do this, but only if they understand their position as subservient in the human pack that adopts them.

Peter Roberts

Crickhowell, Brecknockshire