Government this week put out a notice urging all dog owners who no longer wish to keep their animals to take them to their local SPCA, animal welfare shelter, or private veterinarian. This as the debate on whether pitbulls should be banned continues to gain momentum as more children are getting mauled to death by the dogs. In the most recent case, a one-year-old child was on Wednesday mauled to death in a pit bull attack in the Eastern Cape, bringing the total of such attacks across the country to three in less than one week and at least five incidents in November. Keshvi Nair is Public Relations Officer for the National Council of SPCAs