Here's just a few of the animal organizations rejecting breed specific legislation as a legitimate means to address the rate of dog bite related fatalities......
(alphabetic order)
American Bar Association has also rejected breed specific legislation......American Bar Association
Resolution 100
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Urges Adoption of Breed-Neutral Dog Laws
Resolution adopted 8/6/2012
Resolution adopted 8/6/2012
"RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges all state, territorial, and local legislative bodies and governmental agencies to adopt comprehensive breed-neutral dangerous dog/reckless owner laws that ensure due process protections for owners, encourage responsible pet ownership and focus on the behavior of both dog owners and dogs, and to repeal any breed discriminatory or breed specific provisions."
Sandra seems to be experiencing Cynophobia which is an irrational fear of dogs generally it's all dog but for Sandra it seems to be specifically pit bulls.
When All Dogs Are Bad Dogs – Cynophobia - Calm Clinic
Well I must be a magnet for pibbles and their owners.Had another scary incident.Kid on a skate letting his pibbles pull him.Dog literally jerked him off his skate board and to his knees in an effort to come after my dogs.I had my Udap Bear spray already uncapped and ready to go.Had my kitchen knife in my bag too.I got out of there asap and didn't take my eyes off that dog until I was out of sight.Very nerve racking.Cant even walk to the dog park now.This is so frustrating.Very thankful that leash held and the kid was strong enough or I'd probably been in the news tonight.
The general consensus among these people is they're victims advocates they don't seem to see anything wrong with specializing in pit bull victims and they seem to have a "the end justifies the means" type mentality there's only one hitch is breed specific legislation doesn't work.
Will breed-specific legislation reduce dog bites?
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complete articlehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1576444/
If you read the comments under Sandra's post these people seem to expect the rest of the world to cater to their irrational fear of the whole population of a breed/type based on their experience with a dog that may or may not have been a pit bull in spite of the issues relating to identifying pit bulls.
A former Ohio dog warden, Tom Skeldon, who was called as an "expert" on behalf of the City of Toledo in the matter of Toledo v. Tellings testified that there is really no way to tell if a dog is or is not a pit bull, and the determination is made by animal control officers' subjective judgment. Toledo v. Tellings, 2006 WL 513946 (Ohio App. 6 Dist) March 2006
[Breed bans] carry with them too much potential for arbitrary or improper enforcement: inaccurate breed identification by officials and difficulty enforcing breed bans against mixed-breed. Source: AnimalLaw
[W]e conclude that the subjective identification of pit bulls may often include both non-pit bulls or dogs which are not vicious...[laws] based upon that identification process, we conclude that they are unconstitutionally vague. Toledo v. Tellings, 2006 WL 513946 (Ohio App. 6 Dist) March 2006
Give it a go yourself......
Find the Pit Bull
Claiming that the cause of what they term to be a dog bite epidemic is directly related to breed when 38% of dog bite related deaths involve non banned breeds is deliberately misleading the community and coupled with the fact that hundreds of thousands of innocent pit bulls died in shelters last year and the year before the death toll was nearly twice the national average for the previous two decades seemingly affirms that it's not a breed problem it's a "dog" problem.
The sad irony is that the majority of pit bulls abandoned at shelters is not as a result of "aggression issues" as some misguided pro-Bsl goons will insist , it's because of breed specific legislation and the fear mongering and disinformation promoted via their media outlets on Facebook, Twitter, Google etc etc...
Luckily the truth emerges and in recent times legislators have implemented anti bsl legislation and many municipalities have repealed existing breed specific legislation on mass....
Opposition to laws banning dogs by breed grows « ABA ...
All the facts are overwhelmingly in support of breed neutral laws and the sooner these breed specific proponents admit breed specific legislation doesn't work and get on board with BNL (breed Neutral Legislation) the sooner we can have a chance at lowering all dog bite relate fatalities and not just those involving pit bulls?
more to come.....
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