Posted on 03/14/2012 8:01:11 PM PDT by Altariel
Actually, it is a conservative position, based on the knowledge that once breed bans start with the “evil” breeds, they keep going on principle.
If you have personal concerns about a certain type of dogs, that’s fine.
However, your personal concerns don’t make your fellow Freepers concerns de facto “liberal”. It isn’t “liberal” for your fellow Freepers to argue “since United made its decision, I’ve made mine—United is no longer on the list of airlines on which I will choose to fly.”
“To ask for and expect strangers like airline folks to be those ‘specially skilled/trained handlers,’ of known breeds is an unreasonable expectation. And for me that does indeed make it both a mute and moot point. “
No one has asked the airline folks to be “those specially skilled/trained handlers”; this is a straw-man argument.
What’ll your first act be, “Seas Cruelty” Salamander?
“Why create bad PR? Just have the pilots not flip the “dead dog switch.””
Because it is not logical to assume that only one of the undesired breeds will be on the plane.
If all the dogs on a particular flight were brought out dead, the airline would be sued. Repeatedly.
Rottweilers and Dobermans are banned from American Airlines, just not United Airlines.
I guess the German Shepherd and Belgian Malinois are next.
As far as which dog is a pitt and which is not, it is a breed that is very distinctive looking and those pitt characteristics come out clearly in a mix of breeds. Does that mean they are all bad dangerous dogs? No it doesn't but Pitt Bulls and part Pitts have shown that you need to be careful around them because they are so powerful and were originally bred for fighting.
Apparently we’re living parallel lives...;D
I guess we Arrrrrrrgggghhhhhhh!!! LOL
Plunder me some gold doubloons, of course....;D
LOLOL!
Good ‘un.
;D
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.