Ontario Pitt Bull Ban

[reza]

awwwwwww puppy! i take it all back

as much as i love dogs, and all animals in general, no picture is going to make me change my mind.

cute dog though

[Joey]

there's no argument that all dogs have the ability to be vicious, but stastically pit bulls have been reported more often in cases of animal attack. im sure u can get teh sats from any humane society

actually, humane societies in ontario are against the ban and have fought to save them, they're the ones spending time and money on rehabiliting the hurt/abused ones that come into the shelter .. and i did have statistics, i'll see if i can find them again.. most people don't even know what an actual pitt bull looks like .. like i said in my earlier posts, go and take those tests i put up and see if you can find the actual pitt bull. so many 'pitt bull' attacks aren't even by pitt bulls.

All Pit Bulls are vicious, right?
Wrong. No more vicious than Golden Retrievers, Poodles or Beagles according to the American Temperament Testing Society (ATTS). In fact, Pitt Bulls received a higher grade, 83.9%, than golden retrievers for good temperament. It's a fact ... www.ATTS.org

To achieve this score, dogs are put through many confrontational scenarios to see if they react with panic or aggression. The high rating of pit bulls under these tests proves that this breed is not inherently aggressive or vicious.

[Dr. Hobo]

hmmm
no wonder nippy got mad at me
shes part golden retriever and part german sheppard

[Joey]

Liberals Passing Wrong Dog Bill, Clip the Owners

"I was saddened to hear of an attack by a Labrador retriever. Saddened for the victim who had to experience a horrific dog attack. Saddened because the Liberal goverment is introducing legislation which will not help victims like the child in the attack.

On October 27th, CTV in North Bay reported a very bad attack on a 2 year old boy. The attacking dog was a black lab. The child suffered from bites to his face. The boy's grandmother asked the owner for permission to pet the dog. The owners said ok and then the dog attacked the child's face. There have been many other serious dog attacks recently:

* in 1 week alone there have been 2 attacks involving a german shepherd and a rottweiler that were not reported to the media.
* there was a doberman attack reported on city tv last night
* there was another attack involving an off duty german shepard that went unreported
* there was a german shepard attack in september on a child waiting for a school bus
* a radio station reported that there was a serious attack by a golden retriever in sept.
* in early sept. a coon hound attacked viciously, gouging into a child's stomach that it took 65 stitches to close the wound
* in late august a chesapeake bay retriever in london, ontario attacked a child's face and neck - 141 stitches were required

It is guaranteed that there have been hundreds of other serious bites in this province that have gone unreported, and that these will have involved a large variety of breeds and cross breeds. In the same time period there have been only 2 attacks involving "pitt bulls". In one case the victim was alleged to have been a) intoxicated and b) had one of the two male dogs he was walking in a headlock when the second dog attacked. In the second case, the owner kept trained attack dogs on her property and they did exactly what they had been trained to do when the owner let them outside - attack

All of these attacks are horrible but as the experts have said, dog attacks are independent of breed. They have everything to do with ownership and accountability. The Staffordshire Bull Terrier Club of Canada calls on on the Liberal Goverment to make all owners accountable.

Ontario does not need reactionary legislation. We need to learn from the mistakes of others like the UK and Colorado, where it has been proven that breed bans are costly and ineffective. We also need to look at laws that have worked well, like the laws in Calgary. That is what "smart government" is all about.

Passing legislation to ban pitt bulls is a reactionary, overboard action. Pitt bulls are not ticking bombs. For goodness sakes, they're not even a breed! This grouping of dogs is easy to attack because they are sensationalized by the media for a simple reason: pitt bull incidents sell papers and shows. They were originally bred to fight dogs, but were not bred for human aggression. The same cannot be said for many other breeds that were developed to attack people.

If you look at just one breed to be banned under Bill 132, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, it becomes apparent how ridiculous this bill really is. This breed has one of the lowest bite records in the dog world and has never killed a person. Researchers classified the Staffordshire Bull Terrier as one of the 10 best breeds for children. Yet Bill 132 would see this wonderful breed exterminated. Thousands of innocent dogs will be killed if Bill 132 passes. Bill 132 will not improve public safety. An accountable Dog Owners Act would. The Saffordshire Bull Terrier club calls on the Liberal Government to protect the safety of all Ontarians by scrapping Bill 132 in favour of an owners accountability act. We call on the Liberal Government to protect all victims.

Punish the deed, not the breed.

[Dr. Hobo]

i agree with that fully joey

[Joey]

http://www.petitiononline.com/newban2/petition.html

http://www.torontohumanesociety.com/int ... n.html#pet

[Joey]

http://www.deviantart.com/view/11454716/

watch this .. and your questions about pit bulls will be answered
gah i hate people, i really do
here are your facts and your statistics
i e-mailed it to the attorney general who announced the legislation too
please watch it

[Beram]

poor doggies!

[Rusty]

I dunno if this was posted or if anyone has ever seen it, but viewer discretion is advised.

http://gprime.net/flash.php/thepitbullproblem

[Joey]

i posted the link to it before just above you .. but over a year ago.
makes me cry.

[Rusty]

Oh, I was wondering what that link was. I couldn't view it because I don't have a devintart account. It is so sad.

[its4am_isanybodyhome]

i have a friend who has a pit bull, and it's one of the sweetest dogs i've ever met. she's very calm and loves people.

neighbours that used to live across the street from me had 2 dogs, not pit bulls (i don't remember what though) and they would jump on me, scare the crap out of me, and almost bit me.(this was quite a few years ago, i was really little.) the owners put up an electric fence around their property...and never turned it on. my dad talked to one of them about it, and got the door shut in his face. it was so bad that i was scared to go outside by myself to take a walk. plus the dogs would always come and shit on our lawn.

/bitter