Posted on 08/08/2018 1:44:51 PM PDT by Norski
First-ever election win for pit bull advocates
SPRINGFIELD, Missouri––Out-spending voices for animal and human safety by a margin perhaps as high as $10,000 to $1.00, pit bull advocates on August 7, 2018 celebrated their first-ever defeat of a pit bull ban in a municipal general election.
Reversing the outcome of earlier attempts to repeal pit bull bans in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and Aurora, Colorado, pit bull advocates in Springfield, Missouri polled at least 21,142 votes, or 68% of the votes cast, against 9,772 votes (32%) for the ban.
Older breed-specific ordinance remains in effect
Opened Question 1 on the Springfield primary election balloti:
“Shall the City of Springfield establish a future ban upon the possession of new pit bull dogs within the City limits by prohibiting acceptance of any new pit bull registrations and only allowing renewals of existing current pit bull dog registrations?”
Though the proposed ban on new pit bull registrations was rejected, the election result does not mean the end of breed-specific legislation in Springfield.
Still in effect is a pit bull registration ordinance enacted in 2006, which requires the owners of pit bulls and pit bull mixes to have them microchipped, spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and identified with a registration tag which must be worn at all times.
The language of the proposed Springfield pit bull ban, meant to strengthen the 2006 ordinance, was approved 5-4 by the city council in November 2017.
(Excerpt) Read more at animals24-7.org ...
Well, I can say you dog-haters are the lowest of low, the bottom of the barrel, the lowest dregs of society.
Oh; and you talk just like a Progressive/Leftist/Marxist/Commie. Why are you on this forum? You belong on the DU forum; not here. Your filth is polluting FR. Stop it.
Maybe I misread your meaning. It wasn’t clear to me. Still isn’t.
As the poster of these threads has previously asserted, “My premise here - and also that of Dogsbite.org...”
If anything should be banned it should be posts relying on Merrit Clifton as a source.
Clifton on the evils of Animal Husbandry
"Around the world, societies that practice animal husbandry are desensitized societies.
The abuse of animals inevitably spills over into the treatment of women and children.
Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, and slavery persist in many of the very regions that Heifer Project International serves,
for example, as extensions of common agricultural practice to those of our own species who are least able to protect themselves."
Clifton on hunting...
Michigan stats confirm hunting, child abuse link
"Michigan children are nearly three times as likely to be neglected and are twice as likely to be physically abused or sexually assaulted
if they live in a county with either an above average or above median rate of hunting participation.
In short, Michigan is at the high end of the known U.S. scale for hunting participation, child abuse, and sexual assaults on children and the coincidence is no surprise."
Bwaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaa!!!! The queen of hate, the princess of perversion, the nasty thread maker says Pittie "advocates" are the problem and not you hateful, dreadful, anti-Christ dog eaters.
What a joke. Well, you are a radicalized leftist dog eater, so I shouldn't be surprised you would say something so insane. Anything to promote your click bait eh.
I am sure you and your dog-hating gang will find other methods to restrict freedom and inflict harm on dogs.
Like a Presa.
You beat me to it. Although I have a friend who breeds and shows Presas. Hers are a joy, big, smart and well trained.
There’s your blind spot.
You’re losing it.
RDO ping...
If you’d like to be added to or removed from the list give me a shout.
At least with an ankle biter, they can be drop kicked across the room.
Far easier to defend yourself against one of them than a larger breed.
Wounds, yes. Fatal, No.
Unwise to assume that.
All dogs are potentially dangerous.
The larger the dog the greater the potential danger,but even with small dogs,
the smaller/younger or older/frailer the victim the more damage can be done.
A dachshund that police said dragged a 6-week-old baby from his playpen and mauled him was put to death yesterday.
The boy suffered severe injuries to his feet, legs and head, and at one point upon reaching Children's Hospital in Washington, he stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated, police said.
Pet Jack Russell that killed eight-day-old boy 'had escaped through stair gate to attack child'
Pitbullfacts.org
I like your spirit.
NORK tried to tell me it was looking for info from both sides of the story when I first replied to a post. I soon realized it was a cynophobic troll trying to pimp a couple of dog hating website’s.
Not Chet but a similar lust for conflict. I noticed NORK looks at one side of the story and is a liar.
Not worth my time but it’s nice to see most people on FR see through it.
I have first hand knowledge of these dogs and know, we as responsible dog owners, are in the right.
Thank you for proving my point.
I am abusing “pit bull victims” because I don’t advocate the murder of dogs for no other reason than their supposed breed. Interesting logic.
Excusing the owners responsible for bad dogs is abuse of the victims. Progressive logic.
I’d like to ban these dog threads. The ugliness is truly disheartening. Makes me wonder how much difference there really is between posters here and DU. I used to think that FReepers who disagreed could hold a more civilized discussion than the morons at DU. More and more I am learning that isn’t necessarily so.
I don’t comment too much anymore because of the instant vulgarity that some so readily spew at anyone that disagrees with them. And not just on this subject. This nastiness is creeping into more and more threads on other topics.
I agree.
What a disconnect from reality.
Norski wrote: “Aside from the fact that his was not put forth by bureaucrats, but by the elected city council, I agree.”
Who was going to decide whether a dog was a pit bull or something else?
Not if it’s been passed into law.
ahhhh.... trying to understand.
You’re envisioning that shooting the owner of a ‘misbehaving’ dog may become legal?
And you cannot denigrate an entire breed on the basis of maltreatment & improper breeding by humans. With that logic the “african-american” race should be banned based upon the African example.
I did mention that I almost had my face bit by a Lab; it was mistreated, btw.
This is not a breed matter; it is a human matter.
I will have nothing more to post in this thread on the subject, irrespective of replies.
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