How many stories do you guys need to hear about people getting torn up and even killed by these dogs? Obviously there is a problem. What is it that makes you turn a blind eye? Not every single one is “bad” but so many are, or can be. Other big potentially dangerous dogs running around off leash scare me as well and I don’t think it’s fair that I can’t take a walk around the neighborhood without getting jumpy when I pass by houses where the dog is just free roaming in the open front yard or a kid walks past with a menacing looking Pit on leash whom you know wouldn’t have control if the dog wanted to get after someone.
Yes, obviously there is a problem and we are trying to deal with it in a rational manner,
by advocating for responsible ownership of ALL dogs because we care about ALL victims of ALL dog attacks,
by advocating for effective and rigorously enforced laws against ALL irresponsible dog owners.
What are you doing to prevent ALL dog attacks? Do you care about ALL victims of ALL dog attacks?
No one is turning a blind eye on our side. We see both sides.
We don’t condemn millions of dogs that have never done anything wrong to death
based on the actions of irresponsible owners and the behavior of a minute percentage of dogs.
Your problem perhaps is that you turn a blind eye to all the good stories,
all the millions of dogs that live out their lives without hurting anyone,
and seek to condemn millions of dogs and their owners, based on the actions of relatively very few cases.
I see the same mindset in advocates for other types of bannings.
As C.S.Lewis described it...
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated;
but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
What laws does your community have about free-roaming dogs? About fencing?
What are it’s leash laws?
Are the laws being rigorously and effectively enforced?
...and it needs to be asked what are you doing about the problem?
Your safety and community safety depends on individuals, such as you,
perhaps in conjunction with other similarly concerned individuals in the community
speaking out and demanding that effective laws be enacted and rigorously enforced.
Animal Control must respond promptly and effectively.
Too many times a lackadaisical AC response to a complaint result in a return visit to deal with a tragedy.