March 14th, 2007 by Editor
Peter Vallone, you will recall, proposed a repeal of New York state’s prohibition of breed-specific legislation (BSL) several months back, which he hinted was motivated by the race of many “pitbull” owners. As a result of Vallone’s failure to repeal New York’s BSL prohibition, Vallone may now attempt to push anti-tethering laws. Read the rest of this entry »
March 14th, 2007 by Editor
Please contact the Humane Society of Henderson County Kentucky. Both the director, John Dunaway and ACO Mark Oakley have made public statements that they support BSL, specifically Rottweilers, pit bulls and German Shepherd Dogs. (Read the story here.) Read the rest of this entry »
March 14th, 2007 by Editor
The Lonoke, Arkansas City Council has proposed a breed-specific ordinance which you can read about here. Please contact the following city officials and register your opposition to any breed-specific measures that the city council may attempt to pass: Read the rest of this entry »
March 5th, 2007 by Editor
According to K9 Magazine,
“What the victim[s] of [dog attacks] fail…to realise is that, if every dog capable of inflicting a bite on a human was destroyed, we would have no dogs left/Every dog is capable of an attack, but no dog just “turns” or “goes for someone”. Dogs are not capable of unprovoked aggression, there is always a trigger. The problem is that people are not trained to understand the warning signs. Even the most placid, gentle dog can be provoked, by fear, intimidation or other factors into behaving aggressively, but the solution to an incident should not always be to put the dog down.”
It is nice to see such wisdom from our Briton friends across the pond. We were beginning to think the U.K. “authorities” had gone quite mad and were going to cull all domesticated pets (which I’m sure would make the animal rights groups behind the U.K.’s outlawed dog breed “amnesty” quite happy). Read the rest of this entry »
March 5th, 2007 by Editor
From Responsible Pet Owners Alliance, the reasonable voice regarding animal issues in Texas. Responsible Pet Owners Alliance is an animal welfare organization, not “animal rights” and, yes, there is a difference. Permission granted to crosspost.
Senate Bill 349 by Ellis has been assigned to the Criminal Justice Committee; “Relating to the regulation of dangerous pets by certain populous counties; providing a criminal penalty.” The lists of dangerous dogs compiled in other cities usually include American Staffordshire Terriers, American Pit Bull Terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, (or anything with the appearance of the above!), and sometimes include: Bull Terriers, Rottweilers, German Shepherds, Dobermans, Malamutes, Chows, Akitas and many other large dog breeds and mixes. Read the rest of this entry »
March 5th, 2007 by Editor
From Responsible Pet Owners Alliance (TX-RPOA), the reasonable voice regarding animal issues in Texas. Responsible Pet Owners Alliance is an animal welfare organization, not “animal rights” and, yes, there is a difference. Permission granted to crosspost.
Oppose Senate Bill 405 by Wentworth relating to the regulation of dogs; creating an offense. Bill text may be found at: http://tinyurl.com/ywfz33 . First dog bite on or off your property — and the dog is killed! Please contact the legislators below and oppose this bill as written. Contact your own senator also who can be found (see search box) on the legislature’s website home page www.capitol.state.tx.us . Read the rest of this entry »
March 5th, 2007 by Editor
According to the San Francisco Chronicle,
“A federal judge has dismissed most of a lawsuit challenging San Francisco’s ordinance that requires sterilization of pit bulls, but kept alive a claim on behalf of disabled people who need the dogs to help them get around.”
The viable part of the lawsuit that alleged that San Francisco’s mandatory “pitbull” spay/neuter ordinance violated the Americans With Disabilities Act for those who have bully service dogs was later also dismissed.
Read the entire San Francisco Chronicle article here.
March 5th, 2007 by Editor
We recently speculated that it wouldn’t be long before a police officer, in his haste to shoot a “pitbull” or some other dog the officer believed to be hostile, would shoot a person. We didn’t think it would happen as quickly as a few days however. An officer in Paterson, New Jersey, in an attempt to shoot a “pitbull” in a house in which a S.W.A.T. team had conducted a drug raid, accidentally shot a fellow officer in the arm when the stray bullet intended for the “pitbull” entered the floor and hit the officer on the floor below. Read the rest of this entry »
March 3rd, 2007 by Editor
Penn and Teller show us where contributions to PETA really go. Click here to see the video (Contains language and images you may find graphic).
“Our goal is total animal liberation.” — Ingrid Newkirk, President of PETA.
March 1st, 2007 by Editor
An assistant dog warden in Seneca County, Ohio pled guilty to “theft in office” for willfully misleading the owner of a “pitbull” so that the assistant dog warden could euthanize the dog. When the owner of the “pitbull” came to the dog warden’s office in March 2006 to see if his dog (who had a collar and tags) had been picked up by the assistant dog warden, he was informed that the dog was not there, even though it was. The dog’s owner was later informed by one of his neighbors that the assistant dog warden had picked up the dog. When the dog’s owner returned to the dog warden’s office he found his dog dead and lying in a compost pile. By Ohio law, dogs are considered personal property and therefore the assistant dog warden was made to pay the dog’s owner $500 in restitution. The Seneca County Prosecutor said,
“‘It’s disturbing because as an assistant dog warden he did not handle it properly…He violated the public trust’.”
