“If we’re going to play pretend that we can shoot dogs in the city, why not have a bounty on any dog that’s running around loose?”
And don’t forget those annoying cats that are making noise all night, as well. That causes loss of sleep which can be dangerous, after all.
As far as ACO’s being able to tell a pit from other breeds?I’ve dealt with a bunch of them, being in dog rescue, and a large proportion couldn’t tell a Viszla from a Weimaraner, a Weim from a pit, etc. It doesn’t take a great deal of training to become an ACO.
Anyone that expended a bullet towards one of my dogs is more than likely to get several in return, post-paid. And I don’t even have pits. You let any dumb yay-hoo start popping rounds off at whatever dogs he deludedly thinks is a pit, you’re going to have major problems. Put a bounty on it, and it becomes worse. Lawsuits will NOT help that problem, as there are very low limits on what you can collect for the death of a family pet. The only way a law allowing knuckleheads to shoot pits would work would be one that allows owners of non-pits to beat the living daylights out of anyone who wrongly shoots a non-pit, up to and including causing the slow, painful death of the shooter for doing so. That way, if some clown shoots, say, one of the purebred Weims I had or hope to have, and I have the pedigree for the dog (chipped or tattooed like I’ve had done), having mistaken it for a pit, as some folks have done, I get to shackle his sorry backside to a post and have at him with an ASP baton or similar, till *I* am through. That would take quite some time.
Better be sure of your target, there, pal.
You're telling me. I have AKC registered Boxers, and I have people telling me all the time what lovely Pits they are. People actually try to argue with me. My male has a longer nose, and doesn't conform to breed standards perfectly. He gets mistaken for a Pit because he doesn't have a perfect Boxer head, and I guess I can understand that, but my female, who is an excellent specimen, with a classic Boxer head, gets confused with a Pit just as often, and that kind of ignorance of breeds is exactly why the idea of shooting any breed on site is simply ludicrous.
I'm a Vet Tech, and I have worked in Rescue for a long time, and I can assure you that smaller dogs are much more likely to bite than larger ones. I was bit by a Schnauzer just two weeks ago. Granted, larger dogs can do more damage, but they are far less frequently aggressive than small dogs in my experience.
Typical gang banger mentality.