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To: Mojave
I gave you exact quotes from existing statutes.

Yes,and I understand that. Basically any dog that doesn't have a pedigree can be subject to the arbitrary judgement of a random city employee, misidentified and killed if it has any superficial similarities with the pit bull, such as a blunt muzzle, or a long muzzle. A wide, flat or rounded head. A smooth coat, or a rough coat. Drop ears, prick ears or cropped ears. A long tail,or a short tail. A weight of between 20 lbs and 100 lbs. Muscular, lean or obese. Short and stocky or tall and slim. Solid white,black, blue, spotted, speckled, or brindled. You can't effectively ban pit bulls by appearance.

125 posted on 11/22/2008 8:39:14 PM PST by LongElegantLegs (Deplore the profligate scattering of corpses!)
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To: LongElegantLegs
Basically any dog that doesn't have a pedigree can be subject to the arbitrary judgement of a random city employee

Nonsense. And as I've quoted to you repeatedly, mechanisms exist for owners to contest the identification.

129 posted on 11/22/2008 8:43:42 PM PST by Mojave (http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/)
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To: LongElegantLegs
Exactly. I don't trust the idiots at Animal Control to identify ANYthing.

I have had people ask me if my 46 pound Chocolate Labrador Retriever is a pit bull. And nobody who has gotten a dog from our local animal shelter was ever informed correctly about the breed.

And those are the jokers who would be 'identifying' random dogs as pit bulls so that they could collect the bounty.

The analogy to guns is very apt. An "assault weapon" can be just about anything a legislator wants it to be -- except an actual assault weapon, which is covered by the old 1936 Act and permitted with a Class III license. I don't expect them to do any better identifying dogs.

158 posted on 11/22/2008 9:56:27 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary - recess appointment))
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