Have you never considered that other dogs bite? I was very badly bitten by a Jack russle. OMG IT SHOULD BE BANNED ITS SO VICIOUS ¬.¬ Seriously, what IS your problem with the Pit breed?

Pits originated from AMstaffs to be MORE animal vicious, both these breeds are the most human loving dogs I know. They would not hurt a fly. Its people like you that pick on the pitbull breed, what about Dogos? or the Fila Braz? What complaint do you have about them? How many peole have they killed?

Its obvious the ban is NOT working, as I know abouy 50 people who own pitbulls. They walk them down the street not caring because the authorities dont know the difference between breeds, and nobody reports them, why? bcos these dogs are lovely.

Unlike many of you I am no expert, and I do not have the vast knowledge that some of you seem to have at your disposal.

However

We all aspire to live in a world where the risks to our children and grandchildren including there beloved pets are kept to a minimum, (while maintaining peoples freedom of choice), by keeping potentially dangerous out of control situations (that happen everyday) becoming serious and possibly fatal incidents.

We try to prevent these incidents by taking away the very harmful and fatal instruments that cause the situation to turn into a harmful and fatal incident.

These fatal instruments include weapons of certain kinds that can easily cause injury or death if wielded by a person who, doesn’t think what they are doing is wrong, cannot empathise with a potential victim, someone who is in a confused state, or in highly emotional states or ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
In these circumstances the resulting incident is only limited by the potential harm that can be caused by any fatal instrument.

Therefore is it not the best approach to remove potentially fatal dog attacks from situations, by removing the dog from the unpredictable situations in the first place, and protect our children, and care less about the rights of the dog and there owner.
We must focus on the protection of children as they are often the most serious and common of all dog related incidents.

A responsible gun owner wont go out to kill someone or allow there firearm to discharge accidentally. There are responsible fire arms owners out there so should we not just make gun legal.

~PIT BULLS~
So many Pit bulls get harmed everyday by cruel people who think they are vicious and aggressive. They leave them out on the streets or beat them, leaving the Pit bull having to defend and protect its self.
Now think, really how would a human react towards a situation, if they were getting beaten and or left on the side of the road th defend for its self… And their life.
I do understand that Pit bulls were first breed for fighting but the aggressiveness has been breaded out over the last 20-30 years.
I feel that Pit Bulls can be great dogs, Friendly and loving,
all this pet needs is loving, time, training and a home. I only wished that people would understand that all living animals have feelings, even Pit Bulls.
Every person that I know deeply cares about his or her pets. They are their best friends. They tenderly love each other. Sometimes they eat together, sleep together, and go for walks together.
Personally, I don’t know any dog that would bite without warning or just snap. It’s my firm belief that behavior of the dog doesn’t depend on its breed so much as it being the right training and the “master” that matters.
This goes for

The Boxer
Rottweilers
Presa Canario
Doberman Pinschers
Alaskan Malamutes
Huskies
German Shepherds
As These are known as the most dangerous dogs but i know some dogs from these breeds and none of which seemed the slightest scary or dangerous.

A REAL LIFE PIT BULL DEATH
She left him in her yard chained to a leash. She did not feed him or hydrate him. His only food was the garbage from her garbage can. He eventually died from ingesting garbage. Thousands of people treat them horribly every day…

Dogs most often make wonderful pets, however in certain circumstances, any type of dog can be dangerous. Even friendly dogs, can inflict great harm in the wrong circumstance.

One the act only gives police the power to seize out of control dogs when in public, but none to give control orders. Or to seize dogs that have attacked on private property. They can’t seize every single out of control they haven’t got the money or resources to do so! So a lot of incidents end up going ignored! if they could give on the stop muzzle and leash orders to aggressive and out of control dogs it would be a different story, but they haven’t.

If a child is mauled by a dog on the dog owner’s property, no offence has been committed because the dangerous dogs act 1991 only applies in public and private places the dog was not allowed to be. There are dogs who have mauled children that are still alive because it happened on the owners property. Surely mauling a child or adult for that matter, once is enough to require the dog to be destroyed! How come this flaw hasn’t been fixed in 18 years!

The dangerous dogs act has had 18 years to prove itself and it has failed! Dog attacks are increasing!

We need another dog act to repeal and replace it! One that would give the police the power they need to deal with as many aggressive dogs as they can, with the resources they have. One with on the stop muzzle and leash orders before an offence is committed.

One that will protect people on private property if they are allowed to be their.

one that will stop targeting non-problem dogs and responsible owners just because the dog looks a certain way, and bear in mind the DDA bans a type of dog not a breed, so judgement is based on appearance. So you can’t have a dog with no pit in it but just looks like it, yet have a dog with pit in it, but doesn’t look like it. Many dogs killed under the DDA had no behavioural problems, not only is this unfair, it is a huge waste of time and waste of resources that the police can’t afford! We could be using these resources to target aggressive dogs before the attack and on prosecuting owners that allow attacks to happen.

One that will include compulsory micro chipping, or even annual licensing with discounts for neutered dogs, dogs that have passed a kennel club good citizen test, or is a qualified visiting therapy dog.

As well as having much harsher punishments for those who use dogs as weapons on innocent people. Let’s say the same as some who used a gun or a knife.

There are so many places that have reduced dog attacks without bsl. it is not bsl that reduces dog attacks in bsl areas but non-bsl side of the dog law. When places pass bsl they normally change the whole dog law with it, and when attacks go down everyone forgets the rest of the dog law and gives the whole credit for the reduction to bsl. Many places have passed bsl and have had no reductions in dog attacks, such as the Netherlands and the UK. It depends on how good the rest of the dog law is. The UK has a very bad law so dog attacks increased. The rest of Denver’s dog ordinance is good so attacks went down. Both of these included a ban on pit bulls, so if it is bsl that reduces dog attacks why was the only one to have a reduction in dog attacks is the one were the non-bsl side was good? If it was bsl both would have had a decrease in dog attacks.

bsl is unnecessary and even illegal is some places in a America. The Netherlands, Italy and many other places have lifted their breed bans. Try thinking about it logically, if a place had breed bans and it work, they would have kept them. Not lifted them because they worked so well as you try claim. Most likely, they non bsl side of the law was working so well and the breed ban was costing so much and doing very little they decided to lift it Or they weren’t working at all.

You are of course ignoring all of the places wear bsl was challenged and the anti-bsl side won. BSL has been proven in a court of law to be unconstitutional by the Alabama Supreme Court, and a Westbury, NY court. Denver upheld its ban twice. One against a dog owner, one against the state because they BANNED BSL, this violated Denver’s home rule authority. i know of a 3rd put as far as i’m awear that its still depending.

I went to the http://www.dogsbite.org/links-dogsbite.htm and there are no behaviourists that say they support breed bans on it! So where are they? If they are as many as you claim, find me 20 dog behaviourist, trainers or physiologist that agree with bsl and give me a link to each of their websites on the page were it says they agree with bsl. No vets, no animal rights groups, no animal liberation groups, no victim groups, no behaviourist of other species, no zookeepers such as jack hanna, no action groups, dog behaviourist & dog trainers & dog physiologists only! Go on then. World wide if you wish.

There are dog safety programs on it, they focused on education.
Who writes dogbite.org? Another self published author! Did you even read the small print at the bottom, the one were they actually state they focus on pit bull type dogs!
Dogbite.org ‘statistics’ were collected from news reports considering how many times the media gets the breed wrong, these ‘statistic’ aren’t worth anything! and even if they were it still doesn’t take responsiblity away from the owners.

Why has bsl been in place for so long you ask? Because there are a lot of pit haters in the whole that’s why! So you saying pit lovers create the problem. Only a very small percentage of pit lovers create the problem, so don’t tarter every one with the same brush! So what about all of the pit put down under bsl, pit haters are responsible for those! And not just the ones from shelters, but people’s pets.

The vast majority of pit never harm any one. They are owned by responsible owners who neuter them, don’t break leash laws or attempted to intimate anyone with their dogs! ‘Pit dies of old age today, was friendly its whole life never harmed anyone’ doesn’t make news but that is what happens to the majority of them. I think that deep down you feel sorry for these people. You only mention dog fighters and dog breeders, but never the average person with the neutered family pet. By denying their existence and only focusing on the ones who are trying to make money, you make your self feel better about supporting breed bans. And again dog fighters don’t care about breed bans, they underground any way. Dog fighting in the uk has increased 15 folds despite the ban. Have you any evidence to support your theory about the national canine council being funded by dog fighters and breeders?

By the way one other interesting facts about pit bulls and breed bans:

The American Temperament Testing Society does temperament testing throughout the year at breed clubs and complies the statistics. The 2002 statistics show APBTs, AMSTAFFs, and Rottiweilers in the 82 percentile. Golden Retrievers, Bichon Frise 77%, Chihuahua 71%, Greyhound 81%, Lhasa Apso 71%.

Kristine Crawford has a team of pit bulls who are the top rated Search and Rescue dogs in the US. They were asked by NASA to assist in the recent shuttle tragedy, they also assisted in the recent missing girl in CA. Tell all of these families that these dogs are evil, vicious or dangerous. These dogs have brought joyful reunions, and in some cases closure to a suffering family.

Prince George County Maryland did very intensive research into their current ban on Pit Bulls last summer. They formed a large taskforce to review their vicious dog law. After months of research they produced a 300+ page report and one of the recommendations was to lift the ban because of cost, ineffectiveness, and it punishes the responsible dog owners and does nothing to the irresponsible dog owners who are the problem.

These organizations have written position statements against BSL. The AKC, ASPCA, UKC, SPCA, AVMA and the HSUS just to name a few.

People like you will only believe what you want to believe. as does the people from the other side. you will not change anyones opinion espaically not mine! so i don’t know what you are trying to achieve. i have the right of freedom of speech as does everyone else. people like you have a go at anyone how dare speaks against your opinoin, because you do not what people to see the other side of the arguement because they might lisen and vote against bsl. i know some pit lovers will not say anything because they are afaird of what pit haters think about them. i don’t care what pit haters think of me.

i love dogs and not just pits, but all dogs, all breeds and all the mutts and crosses as well. i will not defend any dog that has mauled or killed someone, but those dogs did so as individauls. i will defend any dog that hasn’t from being unfairly perscuted! there are warning signs and they usually start early. if an owner didn’t pick up on these signs and take percautions or training to fix it, that is the fault of the owner. ignorance is not an acceptable excuss. the only dogs that attack suddenly are ones with medical problems or feel threatened.

education is key, not eradication. owners should know what they are doing and how to control and manage a dog before they get one. children need to be taught not not approach or pet unkown dogs and to always tell an adult if a dog is running around loose. parents need to know what it is not okay to leave a dog and a child alone together. most fatal attacks on children happen when no adult is pressent.

most attacks can be prevented with education and good old common sense.

Governments will pass laws when under pressure from the media, lets be proactive and do something to prevent attacks. Any dog in the wrong hands can be aggressive, or trained to be aggressive. I was in the Metropolitan Police and the dog section uses labradors which are trained to protect its handler, and to attack if necessary, yet when you research the net for that family pet, the lab comes out as number one.It would be a nonsence of course to say that you saw a lab take a suspect down, that they as a breed, would not make a great pet, but that with training they will put a man to the ground.

Instead of getting hysterical about any breed, let us look at each dog seperately. If a dog has harmed or maimed a human, it should be destroyed. How many pits worldwide are loving innocent pets, here in England many have been destroyed and owners devestated. This is what needs to be stopped, whatever Country or State you live in.