[kanawa]

In specific reference to Detroit Animal Control...

Detroit Free Press Jan.31/06

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“I’m definitely more in favor of this direction,” said Dr. Angela Hines, a veterinarian who heads the city’s Animal Control division. Hines said a specific pit bull ban was not only nearly impossible for the city to enforce, it also would have been ineffective because it did not address the problem of other dangerous dogs.

Watson said she introduced the ordinance because she was trying to find ways to respond to citizens who complained repeatedly of dangerous dogs on the loose, particularly pit bulls, who attacked people and terrorized neighborhoods.

“Something ought to be done,” she said.

But she said the task force would be the best way for citizens who are concerned about the issue to air their views and look for ways to enforce the city’s current dog laws.

[grellis]

I wasn't actually referring to a ban--that is impossible to enforce, and it DOES punish responsible pet owners. I was referring to what DAC does when they take a pitbull into custody--euthanize. Period. DAC doesn't go door-to-door, rounding up pits. Pits come into DAC custody when fights are broken up or when an attack has occurred. I am an animal lover, but I do not have any problem at all with a dog--any breed--being humanely euthanized when it has been proven to be dangerous. Put the dog down so there is no chance of it being adopted out to another potentially irresponsible owner, then PUNISH the irresponsible owner who owned said menace. That's one small way of limiting the more...tenacious strains of the breed.

BTW--I do not really believe that the breed is beyond redemption. Aggression was bred out of bulldogs (the specific breed, that is) in a few short decades, after bull-baiting was banned in merrie olde England.