Breed Specific Legislation is BAD NEWS  | | | |  Breed-specific legislation (BSL), is any law, ordinance or policy which pertains to a specific dog breed or breeds, but does not affect any others.
Some examples of BSL:
* Restrictions on or the prohibition of ownership of American Pit Bull Terriers in the United Kingdom, some municipalities of the United States.
* Restrictions on the ownership and a prohibitation on the breeding of "pit bull type" dogs (i.e. Staffordshire Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers, American Pit Bull Terriers or any other dog with a substantially similar appearance) in Ontario, Canada.[1]
* Restrictions in Australia prohibiting the importation of the Pit Bull Terrier, American Pit Bull Terrier, the Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino, and the Brazilian Mastiff. There is also a more stringent ban in Sydney, Australia restricting the sale, acquisition, breeding or giving away of any of the aforementioned breeds. [2]
* Restrictions on the availability of homeowners insurance for owners of many breeds, including American Pit Bull Terriers, Rottweilers, Dobermanns, Akitas, in some areas of the United States [3].
* Proposed legislation in some Australian states that would prohibit the breeding of any breed of dog not recognized by the Australian National Kennel Council, or restrict or prohibit breeding certain breeds.
* The requirement that Greyhounds wear muzzles in public in some Australian states.
* The Dangerous Dogs Act of the United Kingdom legislatively drafted prohibitions for certain types of dogs; most notably pit-bull type dogs.
The worst part about BSL is that it doesn't serve to do what it was designed to do. There are simply some people who should own dogs, whether it be a poodle or a pitbull. When laws or bylaws like BSL are introduced, the only people that suffer are those whose family pets are taken away and destroyed simply for looking a certain way. Those people who keep dogs like pitbulls, rottweilers or dobermans for fighting or as attack dogs (please differentiate from 'guard dogs' where the dogs serve a purpose protecting hearth and home rather than those dogs just trained to intimidate and be used as 'weapons') don't suffer because the majority of those people don't consider their animals, their 'pets'.
They will either squirrel their animals away in an secluded area to avoid suspicion (serving only to further enrage these already poorly or completely unsocialized animals), or they will let law enforcement take them away and move onto to another breed with similar characteristics.
Punishing the deed, instead of the breed, is more effective in that it doesn't paint a dark picture of all dogs of one breed, regardless of whether or not they are all 'dangerous', but it punishes the dog involved in the attack to prevent them from doing something similar in the future. Law enforcement should also be restricting the individual owning the dog in question's rights to own animals as they haven't proven responsible in the past.
BSL creates 'witch-hunts' where neighbours call bylaw enforcement on their neighbour to have their so-called 'dangerous dog' taken away. These dogs are not responsible for anything more than appearing the way that they do. People owning stocky Labradors, American Bulldogs, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers, Mastiff Crosses or other rare 'bully' breeds are having their lives turned into upheaval as their best friends are being taken away leaving them only a scant few days to prove their dog's innocence before they are put to sleep.
Even animal control officers have professed to having trouble identifying what a 'pitbull' is, and these are the people in control of enforcing BSL.
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I can't blame them, it took me 3 tries to find the pitbull on this page http://www.pitbullsonthew... and I've owned and showed dogs almost my entire life. Give it a try. You'll be surprised.
The result of this is going to be a larger and more extensive 'banned breed' list in counties, countries, provinces and states where an existing breed ban already exists. If you think I'm kidding, please take a look at this list of breeds either listed as:
'Restricted' (one of 3 things, owners are forced to spay or neuter animal, Breed-specific insurance requirements forces owners to obtain the unobtainable "vicious" breed insurance - in reality this forces owners to surrender dogs or move, or banning dogs over an arbitrarily determined weight or size - as in Fairfield, Iowa where all dogs over 100 lbs are banned such as St. Bernards, Irish Wolfhounds, Great Danes, etc.)
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'Banned' (an outright ban on owning a specific breed of dog) in several states in the US.
1. AIREDALE TERRIER
2. AKBASH
3. AKITA
4. ALAPAHA BLUE BLOOD BULLDOG
5. ALASKAN MALAMUTE
6. ALSATIAN SHEPHERD
7. AMERICAN BULLDOG
8. AMERICAN HUSKY
9. AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER
10. AMERICAN STAFFORDSHIRE TERRIER
11. AMERICAN WOLFDOG
12. ANATOLIAN SHEPHERD
13. ARIKARA DOG
14. AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG
15. AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD
16. BELGIAN MALINOIS
17. BELGIAN SHEEPDOG
18. BELGIAN TURVUREN
19. BLUE HEELER
20. BOERBUL
21. BORZOI
22. BOSTON TERRIER
23. BOUVIER DES FLANDRES
24. BOXER
25. BULLDOG
26. BULL TERRIER
27. BULL MASTIFF
28. CANE CORSO
29. CATAHOULA LEOPARD DOG
30. CAUCASIAN SHEPHERD
31. CHINESE SHAR PEI
32. CHOW-CHOW
33. COLORADO DOG
34. DOBERMAN PINSCHER
35. DOGO DE ARGENTINO
36. DOGUE DE BORDEAUX
37. ENGLISH MASTIFFS
38. ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIEL
39. ESKIMO DOG
40. ESTRELA MOUNTAIN DOG
41. FILA BRASILIERO
42. FOX TERRIER
43. FRENCH BULLDOG
44. GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG
45. GOLDEN RETRIEVER
46. GREENLAND HUSKY
47. GREAT DANE
48. GREAT PYRANEES
49. ITALIAN MASTIFF
50. KANGAL DOG
51. KEESHOND
52. KOMONDOR
53. KOTEZEBUE HUSKY
54. KUVAZ
55. LABRADOR RETRIEVER
56. LEONBERGER
57. MASTIFF
58. NEOPOLITAN MASTIFF
59. NEWFOUNDLAND
60. OTTERHOUND
61. PRESA DE CANARIO
62. PRESA DE MALLORQUIN
63. PUG
64. ROTTWEILER
65. SAARLOOS WOLFHOND
66. SAINT BERNARD
67. SAMOYED
68. SCOTTISH DEERHOUND
69. SIBERIAN HUSKY
70. SPANISH MASTIFF
71. STAFFORDSHIRE BULL TERRIER
72. TIMBER SHEPHERD
73. TOSA INU
74. TUNDRA SHEPHERD
75. WOLF SPITZ
Is your breed on that list? Mine is.
On the front page of this website, help Calgary's dog owners out and vote NO! to them introducing a breed ban http://www.calgary.ctv.ca/ and if your county or city is planning to introduce a breed ban or restricted breed list, join in the fight before we lose our rights to own our dogs.
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| 1.  wiccania (2950)
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5 years ago
| |  Mine's on the list, and I think it's absolutely ridiculous. Thank you for posting this.
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| 2.  liperoterachel (10130)
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5 years ago
| |  I have a hard time believing that any city or state would bann a Pug, Golden Retriever, I myself have a Bouvier Des Flanders! Not to mention I see Labs are on this list! Who the heck would put a lab in the violent catagory! I had one many years ago and from what I understand from the trainer we used, I had a better chanse of him showing an intruder around then attacking him.
Were the Heck did you get that list?
Anyways I can understand why they regulate certain dogs example the Pit bull! I am sure they are generally good dogs but people are abusing them and using and breeding them to kill. Unfortunitly when animals are breed in this manner they have a high chance of turning on humans. Some have even killed!
Until they get this problem under control, I think the only thing you can do is control there population and know who has them. SO if one does get out and kill a 5 year old they know who it belongs to!
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| breepeace (2268)
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5 years ago
| | If there's ever been a bite incidence then cities with fear-mongers with too much time on their hands will lobby to get any dog breed involved banned or restricted.
My family owned a Bouvier for years to PROTECT our Siberian Huskies but yet both breeds are there on that list. Every Siberian owner will tell you Sibes are more likely to show the burglar the silverware for a cookie, than they ever are to bite someone intruding into your home, and it's true.
This list means that SOMEWHERE in the US, dogs on this list have been either banned or have had restrictions placed on owning such dogs, such as mandatory spay/neuter OR mandatory microchipping, etc.
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The thing with restricting or banning certain breeds, is just what I mentioned above. The reason they implement these laws are to have dog owners who are not socializing their animals or are breeding them for bad intent give up their dogs, but it doesn't solve the problem.. they'll just get another breed that's not on the list. They should start restricting dog ownership for offenders who have had dogs attack in the past, require mandatory 'Responsible Dog Ownership' classes.
If someone is drinking and driving, and they hit and kill someone, they don't ban people from driving, they don't wreck the car, they require the offender to either drive with restrictions or to give up his license completely, and force him to take a driving course as well as substance abuse seminars at his own cost. Dogs can be just as much of a weapon as a vehicle can, but it's not the vehicle's fault that it hit someone because the operator was inept, and it's not the dog's fault that due to lack of socialization or training aimed at the wrong areas, he bites someone. Dogs are only conditioned to do what they've been taught, they aren't naturally vicious. | | | | | | | Attention Dog Lovers Turn a photo of your Dog into a Work of Art on Canvas. From $39.95 www.creARTypics.com | add comment | | | |
| | 3. Malamute (40)
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5 years ago
| |  This is just so unfair and completly arbitrary! I have an Alaskan Malamute/Timber wolf mix and if I registered her legally I would have to install an 8 foot fence that extends two feet underground and have a 2 million dollar liability policy! Good dogs come from good owners regardless of the breed!
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| | 4. WolfSpirit292 (77)
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4 years ago
| |  I think it all sucks. The trailer park we live in doesn't allow pit bulls, only because they are scared of "dog fights"- an honest concern but not very valid since those can be broken up- and for insurance purposes. A home or renters insurance will NOT insure you if you have a pit, so they want to be able to insure all their trailers. Understandable on their part, a bunch of BULL from the insurance companies.
My fiance owns a pit bull/lab mix, one of the sweetest dogs ever! He doesn't live with us (not cause the ban cause we'd sneak him in), he lives with his parents (the dog will not part with Papa, lol). But I've owned TONS of different dog breeds, a lot of those that are on this list. My two favs in fact are on there- Goldens and Australian Cattle Dogs.
I just lost a golden, the best damn dog I've ever had, though my latest Cattle Dog is very close. I can't replace that golden though. My brother has two goldens. We have TWO Cattle Dogs- some of the smartest, kindest, gentle dog breed there is. Great with EVERYONE. They're protective of the house and will guard it, but they won't just attack people.
NO DOG BREED IS WORSE THAN ANY OTHER! It's only dogs that are trained to be mean, and trained to attack. I don't know what people don't get! The polls from 2008 on the most dangerous dog breed in the world- and I don't joke- is the dang Chiwahwah- or however you spell it, the taco bell dog! HAHA. But THAT was declared the most dangerous dog!
I'm sorry but this list is just bull crap!
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| | 5. WolfSpirit292 (77)
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3 years ago
| | Guys, spread this around. I was talking to a fellow animal lover about this the other day and she found this (she has a pit bull mix). This is a petition against BSL, and it's already WELL over 11,000 sigs! Please sign and spread it around!!
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