July 21st, 2009 by Editor

From NewsChannel5.com:

The sheriff in White County demanded a ban of pit bulls after a string of attacks and confrontations by dogs belonging to alleged law violators. Read the rest of this entry »

July 21st, 2009 by Editor

From WSBT channel 2:

A dog attack is prompting Elkhart City leaders to consider increasing requirements and possibly even banning pit bulls…It happened as the city was already looking to tighten its animal control ordinance. Read the rest of this entry »

July 20th, 2009 by Editor

From TheFacts.com:

City Council already has decided it wants to ban rottweilers and pit bulls from the city limits, but it has not decided what to do with animals already there as family pets. Read the rest of this entry »

July 20th, 2009 by Editor

From the Daily Times Herald:

The Glidden City Council is considering stiffening a vicious-animal ordinance to include a breed-specific provision regulating
pit bulls. Read the rest of this entry »

July 3rd, 2009 by Editor

From the Times Leader:

Mayor Tom Leighton said the city will do whatever it can to prevent dangerous dog attacks.  Read the rest of this entry »

July 2nd, 2009 by Editor

Editor’s note: Seems Councilman Rochester should have spent less time worrying about everybody else’s dog and focused more on his own.

From reason.com:

Aaron Rochester, a city councilman in Sioux City, Iowa, who led an effort to get pit bulls banned in the city is now appealing to prevent his own dog from being euthanized after it apparently bit a neighbor. His dog? A Labrador. Read the rest of this entry »

July 1st, 2009 by Editor

Editor’s note: Following is a letter sent by an Elgin resident to the Elgin, Illinois Mayor and City Council regarding their intent to propose breed-specific legislation (BSL).  The Elgin resident was originally corresponding with Councilman John Prigge, who it sounds like is in support of BSL, but the letter was sent to the whole council.

Mr. Prigge:

I’m going to CC the rest of the council in on my response to you because there is pertinent information here that I hope they will find valuable as well.

Thank you for sending me the article about the recent dog attack in Texas.  No one would dispute the horror of a dog bite/attack, especially one resulting in a fatality.  But dog-bite-related fatalities are not limited to one breed, and again, “pit bull” is a catch-all designation that can refer to countless breeds.  Do you propose to ban or restrict ten, twenty, or thirty breeds?  Even the articles written about the incident in question refer to the dogs as both “pit bulls” and American Bulldogs.  Well which is it?  It is typical of the media and those involved in dog bites/attacks to get the breed wrong.  So how do you know these breeds are “dangerous” or “vicious” when the dogs in question are seldom ever even properly identified?  Doesn’t it worry you that you may be restricting or banning the wrong breeds?  And how do you and the Council propose to define “pit bull”?  Read the rest of this entry »