If you tried something like that around here, it would be like kicking a hornet's nest.
And more than one idiot has asked me if my very small and very lively Chocolate Lab is a Pit Bull . . . I don't want idiots deciding that she really IS one . . .
(I mean, does she look like a Pit to you? Not me. Although in this second picture I suppose she does, a little.)
Sorry, AAM, I saw that article, just about beat my keyboard down through the top of my desk and wasn't really paying much attention to where my post got sent.
I'm in central Montana, and folks around here have got pretty much the same attitude about that stuff as your neighbors. Which, BTW, is around half the reason we moved here. (The rest is because of the grandkids living a half mile down the road.)
Good smile on your Choc', she looks like a real prize. (BIG thumbs up.)