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Oh, if only I had a nickel for every time someone used skewed or half-truth statistics to push the lie that is breed-specific legislation (BSL).   For instance, last week, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in a desperate bid to keep their city-wide “pit bull” ban, released statistics showing that the city of Pawtucket supposedly had a…

Ontario’s Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Randy Hillier will be re-introducing Bill 16 — formerly “Hershey’s Bill” — to repeal Ontario’s breed-specific ban on “pit bulls.”   Why?   Because as the Toronto Humane Society and Hamilton, Ontario have both acknowledged, Ontario’s breed-specific law (BSL) is not working.   Hamilton and the Toronto Humane Society…

Like Denver and Toledo, it looks like Swanton, Ohio can’t tell what a “pit bull” is as defined by their own ordinance either.   Tim Bork of Swanton was recently cited by Fulton County Dog Warden Brian Bannister for having a “pit bull-type dog,” a dog identified by Bannister as a Fila Brasileiro mix, which…

I’ve dealt with my fair share of uppity nanny-staters in my day.   You’ll know them because every once in a while they’ll stoop to correct you like negative reinforcement for their pets.   They’ll look down their noses at you and they’ll say ridiculously asinine things like: “If you have nothing to hide, then…

Two 15-year olds in Maine thought it would be fun if they put a kitten in a microwave and microwave it . . . and then post a video of it on Twitter.   Thankfully the kitten survived, seemingly unharmed, but seriously, what is this world coming to?   Should these girls be charged as…

Updated November 5, 2013 With 50,000 stray dogs supposedly roaming the ruins of Detroit like some kind of scene from out of ‘Mad Max’, with psychopaths stabbing and hanging an innocent “pit bull” in Lansing (Although look at this picture.   This dog is clearly a mastiff.), and after a dog was found dead inside…

Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, both Dover and Dardanelle Arkansas* considered “pit bull” ban proposals.   Dover, which I’ve already written about here and here, had its second reading of the proposed ordinance, and Dardanelle had its first reading.   I’ve already posted about Dover’s “pit bull” ban proposal and the city council meeting wherein it…

Despite Burnaby, British Columbia citizens petitioning the Burnaby City Council to remove breed-specific language from Burnaby’s Animal Control bylaw, the Burnaby council has decided to go the other way, seeking instead to add additional provisions to its existing breed-specific law (BSL).   According to BurnabyNow: If council says yes to the staff recommendation on Sept.…

With the third supposed “pit bull” attack in Waterloo, Iowa in as many weeks, discussions about passing breed-specific legislation (BSL) are inevitable if not wholly by design.   In what is clearly yet another BSL target city, so-called “pit bull” attacks one after another are not surprising, though their veracity is hard to buy.  …

An article called “How ‘saving’ animals at all costs can be a dangerous proposition” by PETA president Ingrid Newkirk, ran in several media outlets across the country a few days ago and appears intended to vilify the No-Kill movement.   In the article Newkirk writes, Shockingly, pressure to raise shelter “save rates” actually increases the…