Environment Ministry warns against walking, trading dangerous animals, including 28 dog breeds

Qatar’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has urged owners of dangerous animals, including 28 breeds of dogs, against walking them in public places.

It has classified a list of 48 animals as dangerous, including dog breeds such as Doberman, Bull Terrier, Bull Dog, Canary Dog, Great Dane and others. 

The Ministry, writing on its social media, urged ‘possessors of dangerous animals not to bring or walk these animals in public places to ensure the safety of individuals.’  

It further warned against displaying, selling, or trading these animals, in accordance with the provisions of Law No. (10) of 2019, which regulates the possession of dangerous animals and organisms to maintain public safety and protect the environment.

The ministry called on everyone to ‘review the regulation, which includes 28 breeds of dangerous dogs, along with a range of other organisms classified as dangerous, to ensure full compliance with the law.’

Here is the complete list of dangerous animals, as shared by the Ministry: 

1. Doberman
2. Ridgeback
3. American Staffordshire Terrier 
4. American Pit Bull Terrier
5. Boston Terrier
6. German Pinscher 
7. Stafforshire Terrier
8. Bull Terrier 
9. Ca De Bou 
10. Canary Dog 
11. Argentino Dogo
12. Brazilian Mastiff 
13. Spanish Mastiff 
14. Neapolitan Mastiff
15. Bull Dog 
16. Bull Mastiff 
17. Old English Mastiff 
18. Dogu De Boreaux
19. Boxer
20. Great Dane 
21. Rottweiller 
22. Shar Pei 
23. Cane Corso
24. Kangel Dog
25. Tibet Dog
26. Sheep Dog Caucasim 
27. Ovcharka 
28. Alpine Mastiff
29. Panthera Leo 
30. Panthera Tigris 
31. Panthera Pardus 
32. Panthera Onca
33. Puma Concolor
34. Acinonyx Jubatus 
35. Crocuta Crocuta
36. Hyaena Hyaena 
37. Vulpes Vulpes
38. Canis Aurcus
39. Crocodiles
40. Papio Hamadryas
41. Chorocrbus Pygerythrus
42. Pan Trogldytes
43. Gorilla SPP
44. Spiders
45. Snakes 
46. Scorpions
47. Wild cats
48. Bears