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Canton, Michigan Couple Seek Repeal of Vicious Dog Label for Pit Bulls
Jessica and Marcin Kowalewski have begun lobbying local officials in Canton, Michigan to repeal a provision in Canton’s vicious dog ordinance that declares so-called pit bulls vicious. While the Kowalewskis argue that Canton’s breed-specific law (BSL) is unfair because their bulldog mix Loki is obedience trained, loves children and cats, and is well-behaved on…
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Garden City, Kansas: Attorney Lobbies to Remove Pit Bulls from Breed-Specific Law
On Tuesday, December 3, 2013, local attorney Luci Douglass lobbied the Garden City, Kansas Commission to remove the breed-specific language that defines pit bulls as vicious from Garden City’s breed-specific law (BSL). Since 2002, Garden City’s ordinance has defined so-called pit bulls — American Pit Bull Terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, and American Staffordshire Terriers,…
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Did Yakima, WA Uphold Its Pit Bull Ban Using Fudged Pit Bull Intake Numbers?
Tell me if you’ve heard this one: How can you tell if a politician is lying? Their lips are moving. How about a Code Enforcement Manager? Because a mere day before Yakima, Washington inexplicably upheld its impotent 26-year old pit bull ban, the Yakima Herald reported that Code Enforcement Manager Joe Caruso’s…
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Is Purdue’s Alan Beck Pushing BSL Via His Student and Debunked Pit Bull Urban Mythology?
Perhaps you’ve had the same experience, but some of the most clueless people I ever met in my life held Ph.D.s. It’s like they’re idiot savants. They claim to know a lot about one topic, and even that may be suspect, but are ignorant everywhere else. It appears such may be the…
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Yakima, Washington to Discuss Possible Pit Bull Ban Repeal Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013
As I’ve been writing here, here, and here, Yakima, Washington has for many months now, been considering a repeal of their circa 1987 pit bull ban in favor of a possible update to their existing dangerous dog ordinance. Yet despite all the testimony about the inefficacy of breed-specific legislation (BSL), Yakima’s City Code Enforcement…