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Recently, when the Pasadena City Council was considering a mandatory spay/neuter (MSN) ordinance for all dog owners, advocates claimed the political maneuver was really a “thinly veiled attack on pit bulls.”   Instead of pulling back in light of such criticism, it looks like the Pasadena City Council just decided to acknowledge that, yes, they…

It’s understandable when owners of banned or restricted breeds seek to minimize breed-specific restrictions by suggesting additional legislation that they believe will take the stigma off of their dogs.   But I find that trying to “compromise” with the irrational people who propose breed-specific legislation (BSL) is like negotiating with terrorists.   You just shouldn’t…

Perhaps Manderson, Wyoming should take a hint from Greybull, Wyoming and back away from their breed-specific legislation (BSL).   But not only is Manderson not backing away from their existing pit bull ban, they are now proposing to add Rottweilers and Dobermans to their breed ban. We’ve seen this before.   Communities who ban one…

As I wrote in October, Greybull, Wyoming had already passed a first reading of a very drastic breed-specific law (BSL) that would have severely restricted so-called pit bulls in a feigned attempt to protect them.   Yet what Animal Control Officer Doug Youngerman had proposed would actually have codified animal abuse since the proposal required…

Well here’s a new twist.   Usually we see mastiffs being mistaken for so-called pit bulls and then consequently a pit bull ban is called for even though it was really a mastiff that did the attacking.   In Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, Hans Kappen’s wife was mauled to death by a Bull Mastiff on…

According to the Beebe News in Beebe, Arkansas, Mayor Mike Robertson and the city’s attorney Barrett Rodgers, may combine the ordinance language that bans so-called pit bulls with the ordinance language related to vicious dogs.   Beebe already has a breed-specific law (BSL) banning so-called pit bulls, or “Pit Bulls and others in that category…

After the horrific attack by a so-called pit bull on Wilton, Connecticut resident Anne Murray over a week ago, the “official” story seems to have changed several times.   For instance, as I wrote in my initial post about the Wilton case, headlines saying a woman’s arms had been ripped off, that she owned the…

Last year Ohio removed so-called pit bulls from its dangerous dog definition via HB 14.   As such, it is astounding that some Ohio communities — like Swanton and Reynoldsburg — refuse to repeal their breed-specific legislation (BSL) despite their utter failure to be able to enforce it.   It’s no secret that BSL is…

At the Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, town council meeting in New Llano, Louisiana, pit bull supporters crowded the town hall to protest the town’s breed-specific legislation (BSL), a pit bull ban that was passed in New Llano earlier this year.   Five residents spoke before Mayor Freddie Boswell closed the pre-council meeting to those living…

Just like Denver whose Animal Control Officers are unable to tell the difference between what their own ordinance defines as a pit bull and a Boxer mix, so it would seem Reynoldsburg, Ohio cannot discern between a pit bull as defined by their own ordinance and a Cane Corso/Presa Canario cross, breeds which are both…