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Editor’s note: Again, what is a pit bull because pit bull is not a breed?   The slang term pit bull can be used to describe countless actual breeds, their mixes, and lookalikes.   In other words, pit bull is anything you want it to be which is why statistics on pit bulls and so-called…

It is perhaps not so surprising that states that prohibit breed-specific legislation (BSL) like California, Florida, and Illinois, have seen “pit bull” attacks one after another recently, almost as if they were in someone’s sights to repeal those BSL prohibitions.   Why else would the media and elected officials ignore the obvious problems — the…

Bluefield, West Virgina, who prior had a breed-specific law (BSL) that wasn’t working, passed an additional breed-specific law on April 23, 2013, which in fact was an outright ban, and gave existing “pit bull” owners a mere 10 days to register their dogs.   Many upright citizens, not wanting to disobey the law, though they…

Editor’s note: Again, what is a “pit bull” because “pit bulldog” is not a breed.   The slang term “pit bull” can be used to describe countless actual breeds, their mixes, and lookalikes.   In other words, “pit bull” is anything you want it to be which is why statistics on “pit bulls” and so-called…

As we wrote in January, gun grabbers and doggy killers were jubilant when they were able to unite the issues of “pit bull” bans and gun control when a Good Samaritan saved a boy,  Jayeon Simon, from what were called “pit bulls” (though still no word on what breed the dogs actually were) by shooting…

How many times have we read about some prejudiced individual shooting and killing innocent “pit bulls” who were “guilty” of nothing more than approaching an ignorant person too abruptly, even though the dog’s tail was wagging and they were just being friendly.   Or sometimes we read articles about people sniping “pit bulls” just because…

Sept. 26, 2013 update: As the AKC has reported, S. 969 is no longer in consideration for this session.   As we wrote in February, Massachusetts’ S. 969 would overturn the prohibition of breed-specific legislation that Massachusetts   passed just last year, thanks to the special-interest lobbying, and one must assume favor-trading, of Boston Mayor…

With cities like Macomb, Illinois, and states like Michigan, currently considering so-called dangerous or vicious dog registries, we thought we’d weigh in.   Yes, I hate to keep beating the same drum about the unconstitutionality of particularly animal-related legislation, but I’m going to: What do politicians not understand about the reverence with which they should…

Here’s a classic case of it’s-not-the-dog-it’s-the-owner.   Since the owner claimed to need protection and had prior drug-related issues, it sounds like she may have trained her dog to be a drug dog (that is, a dog trained specifically to alert the owner and/or attack law-enforcement officers coming to raid a drug operation, etc.).  …

From WSBT in Indiana: A new city committee meeting for the first time to review and rewrite South Bend’s codes governing Animal Care and Control has their work cut out for them. Thursday night they looked at an updated version of Ft. Wayne’s codes to see how it might apply here.  They started by looking…