Another Government power grab of your rights: Dog Ownership

Responsible Dog Owners of the Western States ^ | Cherie Groves, chairwoman

[ventana]

Their coming to take your rights away...V's wife.

[Liberal Classic]

Dogs are property. As such, crimes commited with dogs, and torts involving dogs are the fault of the property owner -- the dog owner.

Beware of people complaining about "bad breeds" and "assault dogs".

[muawiyah]

Yes, dogs really don't understand. That's why we must take pains whenever a dog kills a human to take the owner out an dexecute him immediately.

It's so rare that I can find anything in these transparent justifications for keeping pit bulls with which I can agree, but there it is.

[JusticeForAll76]

Don't I get to cross-examine the dog?

[ZULU]

Society is becoming more and more tolerant of laws which infringe upon the rights of the majority in order to punish the few.

Whether its "dangerous dog breeds", firearms, other types of pets, remote control planes, pre-existing pig farms, etc.

The driving force behind this is, of course, attorneys and self-serving politicians, which are too often synonmous.

[Glenn]

Free the Mad Cows Now!

[Liberal Classic]

Note that, as people have less rights to defend themselves physically, that they come to rely on police and animal control and demand restrictions on dog ownership and the like.

[ZULU]

That's true also.

But the state cannot protect us and is on record as maintaining it has no obligation to do so.

[Liberal Classic]

Under granola-style animal emancipation statutes, under which one is a dog's "guardian", I suppose you could hire a dog psychic to find out what was going on inside its head.

[Doctor Stochastic]

May I prosecute the owners for letting their dogs poop on my lawn?

[JusticeForAll76]

I was just being silly

[ventana]

Re your pitbull comment: Ditto! V's wife.

[ventana]

Moo! V's wife.

[rattrap]

Ping!

[muawiyah]

Hmmm ~ guy used to do that around here ~ use his dogs to poop on lawns.

One day his prize black chow got loose and jumped into the backyard of this older Korean man.

Dog didn't come out.

We have few stray dogs around here.

[LPM1888]

May I prosecute the owners for letting their dogs poop on my lawn?

Absolutely. But the dog owner should have the Right to sue you for payment for the fertilizer.

[Liberal Classic]

Me too. :)

[brytlea]

Well, the owners need to be punished, and we need to have vicious dog laws with teeth in them (no pun intended...well, maybe it was!). However, I'd be cautious about breed specific laws. First, do you know how many people mistake boxers for pit bulls? What about mixed breeds? It's a conundrum (and don't count on your local animal control officer to be able to tell the difference either).
Personally, the breed that scares me the most is chows. That doesn't mean I think they should be illegal.
Thank goodness I fell in love with golden retrievers and Italian spinoni.
susie

[Red6]

Jet ski's kill people. So do horses, and hang gliders. Rock climbing defaces our parks, as do off road vehicles and snow mobiles. Down hill skiing is unsafe and the rest of us with insurance have to pay for the broken bones. Private or General Aviation is not really needed and very wasteful/polluting. Guns are dangerous and thousands die at the hand of them. Motorcycles are dangerous and cripple thousands each year. Scuba diver damage the coral reefs, mountain bikes the wilderness, campers in our parks leave waste. You should not smoke, and the sun gives you cancer.

There is a wacko out there trying to ban everything and anything. Screw them!

[DonGrafico]

Responsible dog owner, the rarest breed of all. If only that breed was as common as pit bulls, rotties, chows, etc...