BSL - Breed Specific Legislation - Is Your Dog Safe?

Hey there Mosatchmo,

Sorry you got bitten by that dog. However it's not the dogs fault or the breeds fault. It's the owners fault.
Domesticated dogs IE: dogs owned by responsible owners have their shots, are well fed and hopefully well trained and well maintained. Wild animals do not recieve these things, so the comparision is knee jerk reaction. This is the trouble with BSL people who get bit or see pictures of people hurt badly by dogs go on emotions, not on logic.

Keep in mind that YOUR dog could be considered "dangerous" by some people. Dogs are only as dangerous as the ownership practices they are subjected to.

Once one breed gets banned it's a slippery slope to out lawing dogs, or at least the dogs some people think are "dangerous".
I agree that laws are a good thing, but not laws that single out breeds. Laws need to be targeted at humans and their actions, not at dogs.
BSL has not reduced dog bites or fatalities, so how is it effective? BSL costs millions to enforce and there are not shortage of "pit bulls" or other breeds banned.
BSL has had a 20 yera run and the people who started it are still sayting there is a problem. It looks like their "solution" has not worked. 20 years is a good amount of time, and still proponents of BSL do have their "safety".

We are the voice of dogs, dogs are innocent. You seem like a smart person, look into the dog bite stats, look into the unfair treatment that people and dogs recieve because some people have a problem with certain dog "breeds", I'm pretty sure you'll see picking on dog breeds is not the answer.

The following list was populated by this website - http://www.povn.com/urdog/july302006%20bsl%20in%20the%20usa.pdf
This is a list of "dangerous dogs" according to some states, insurance companies and housing authorities http://www.povn.com/urdog/banned%20breeds.html

Just because someone is afraid of dogs or a breed of dog, that does not make those dogs dangerous.

Peace

i agree that it's been more the humans faults causing this than the dogs. and some pets are far closer to wild animals than we might think. even though animals can be best friends with you, doesn't necessarily mean it's not going to bite strangers. i was bit by a large labrador retriever last year, and my little australian shephard mix has almost gotten in fights with an other, similar dog(or two or three). if a lab can be neighborhood menace, in a rural area like mine, i can't even begin to imagine why cities or crowded counties shouldn't be allowed to make laws against certain breeds. that's a part of democracy, and i definitely don't have the knee- jerk reaction that more laws are necessarily bad.

seems to me that people that think a dog is bad simply for it's breed are only a step away from saying a group of people are bad simply for their race (or religion, etc).

is this a form of latent bigotry?

Certain dogs get reputations as violent dogs, not because the breed is violent, but because those breeds are chosen for things like dog fights. Sadly, many dogs once trained to be fight dogs can not ever be trusted around people. This is not in any way the dogs fault, this is the fault of the person who trained the dog for dog fights.

Pitbulls, Dobermans, Rottweilers, and other dogs that are muscular and smart tend to be singled out for dog fights, and unfortunately the breed suffers because of the actions of scum who would train them to kill for no reason other than entertainment.