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Editor’s note: Now here’s an example of a person, Ms. Akers, who, judging from a prior article, was strongly motivated to push a breed ban.   But it appears as if she actually did some homework on the issue and realized, as should everyone at this point, that breed-specific legislation (BSL) in any form is…

[Warning: This post contains photos of a graphic nature and should not be viewed by youths or those who are sensitive to graphic imagery.] Old-School politicos used to say that “As California goes, so goes the rest of the country.”   God help us if that’s true since there is an unusually large amount of…

Editor’s note: Municipalities should absolutely care about protecting children and indeed all of their citizens, but that’s precisely why citizens shouldn’t lobby for breed-specific legislation (BSL), whether an outright ban or restrictions, because BSL has a decades-long history of not working.   Indeed, if people really wanted to keep their children and communities safer, they’d…

Editor’s note: Grief over the loss of a pet is one thing, but then why can’t Ms. Teets understand that the breed-specific legislation (BSL) she’s pursuing will potentially separate loving owners from their dogs as well?   Indeed, if Ms. Teets can acknowledge that “not all pit bulls are like that,” then why can’t she…

Editor’s note: As we noted several days ago in this post, it is so very important that parents teach their children how to behave around animals, domestic or wild, and the recent tragedy in Union City (see article below) is a perfect example of why.   People need to be educated about not having their…

Editor’s note: While the article excerpted below acknowledges that citizens of Clay weren’t given the appropriate amount of time to respond to Clay’s breed-specific ordinance proposal before its passage in early June, they neglect to add that the whole idea for the “pit bull” ban came about because, as we noted in our prior post,…

Editor’s note: Also of note is that in a recent letter to the Minister for Agriculture and Food Security regarding Australia’s breed-specific law (BSL), the RSPCA said that it “does not believe that BSL is in any way effective in preventing or reducing dog attacks, or in protecting the public from dangerous dogs.”   And…

Rhode Island HB 5671, a bill which “would prevent cities and towns from enacting any regulation or ordinance specific to any particular breed of dog, cat or other animal” within the state of Rhode Island, will be heard in the House Committee on the Judiciary Thursday, June 20, 2013, in room 205 in the State…

June 18, 2013 update:   As this article, which was published yesterday, shows, Garland County is now suddenly looking to restrict so-called pit bulls in addition to most likely mastiffs, because the Hot Springs Animal Control examined the dead Bull Mastiff and suddenly realized it was 50% pit bull.   So now the dog is…

Editor’s note: While the article, “There are two sides to every story about ‘animal attacks’” from the Bradenton Herald starts out talking about children who threw rocks at an alligator that later had to be shot because it became “aggressive” thanks to the incitation by the children, I’m excerpting this article in the middle right…