Posted on 04/28/2010 5:18:00 PM PDT by solosmoke
he provincial government bit off more than it could chew by dooming pit bulls as Ontario's worst people-biters, the Toronto Humane Society says.
Results of a survey of municipalities, released Wednesday, show no significant drop in dog bite cases since the government passed Breed Specific Legislation in 2005 that resulted in "countless" pit bulls and related Staffordshire Terriers being destroyed."This survey shows that the pit bull ban has not resulted in a reduction in the number of dog bites in Ontario," said the THS, which opposes breed-specific legislation.
In the THS release, spokesman Ian McConachie quoted then-Attorney General Michael Bryant telling MPPs in the Legislature "it's time that we make amendments to the Dog Owners' Liability Act that make our streets safer.”
The revised legislation outlawing pit bulls "failed to do so," he charged. McConachie said outlawing specific dog breeds "targets the wrong source of the problem.
"Dogs are not born violent," McConachie said. Instead, they are "made that way by irresponsible owners who train them to be that way or neglect them and they develop behavioural problems.
“If we want to reduce the number of dog bites we have to address the route cause of the problem, those irresponsible owners who do not appropriately care for their animals.” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...
Interesting correlation, the facts say much the same thing about gun bans.
need to get one of our psycho anti-pitbull freepers to regulate... because Canadian style communism is what a our psycho anti-pitbull freepers know best.
It's serious wounds and fatalities at stake—not "bites".
Ah, Chet is just a scared little boy with no purpose in life, so he needs a cause to feel important.
But...but...how is this *possible*?!?
“Kill ‘em all” was supposed to be the Final Solution to all dog bites in the known universe!
Do they mean to imply that the *owners* are [and probably always have been] the problem?
Preposterous!
/dripping s
Just imagine how much cold comfort the *good* owners must be feeling, following this astonishing revelation that ~their~ innocent dogs were wholesale slaughtered in cold blood.
“It’s serious wounds and fatalities at stake—not “bites”.”
According to the CDC, the amount of dog bite related fatalities has not risen (accounting for the increase in both human and dog populations) since pit bulls became popular. There are also several other places that have found pit bull bans to be useless, including Denver, Colorado and the UK (whose bites have risen significantly since their ban was enacted).
Calgary does not have breed specific legislation, but instead opted for responsible dog ownership laws that effect ALL dog breeds through the education and regulation of their owners. Since their legislation was enacted, they have seen a dramatic decrease in serious attacks from all breeds, as well as having an estimated 90% licensing rate for all dogs, which is amazingly high.
And what does it say about the US that even the Canadian style commies have figured *this* out?
And if so, what does this tell you?
It says that you are a Canadian type commie.
RDO Woof
Tsk! Tsk! Tske!
What kind of world do we live in, where you can’t even walk your pet croc across the river without fear of him being savaged by these “bred for one purpose” terrors?
There ought to be a LAW!
For the children, of course....
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