Here is a perfect example of the absolute bull**** going on here in Ontario!
In Kitchener, Ontario this week, Shon Carroll, a humane society officer was “told” to investigate the background (lineage?) of a dog that was brought in stray.
** Kitchener has had a breed specific ban in place since Febuary 1997, put in place prior [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2009
Dog nearly killed for having too large of a head!
High Five to Arnold Schwarzenegger
Thank Dogness there is still some good old common sense left in the world!
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed Assembly Bill
241 which would have prohibited any person or entity from having 50 or
more intact dogs or cats. He returned the bill with the following veto
message:
To the Members of the California State Assembly:
I
am returning Assembly Bill [...]
Denver mis-identification process update
Denver newspapers are a-buzz with questions about whether thousands of family pets have been slaughtered simply because of the mis-identification process.
Well, duh?
Check out this quote from The Denver Daily News.
This snippet is Doug Kelley (director of animal control in Denver) defending the “system”.
System
defended
Doug Kelley, director of animal
control, defended the system yesterday, arguing that the appeals [...]
How does Denver identify a dog as a “pitbull”?
Have you wondered how Denver identifies a dog as a “pitbull”? I always find it a curious process how it is that one identifies something that is a slang term or label as opposed to a concrete provable subject.
As I have said over and over, the term “pitbull” is a slang term for a type [...]
Denver’s breed identification was challenged
In a case against the city of Denver where 3 “breed ID experts” identified a dog (Dexter) as a “pitbull”; Dexter's owner challenged this identification and won!
My face is blue from mentioning this important tidbit of knowledge..
“Pitbull” is a slang term for a shape or look of dog. It IS NOT a breed! [...]
Time to wake up to the horrors of BSL
It is due time to “out” the visual and background story behind breed bans. Please let this burn into your mind. Please share this with as many people as you possibly can. The content is difficult, but what those of us who live with breed bans have witnessed and live with every hour of every [...]