Your Dog's Next

Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) is a law or statute that equates the qualities of a dangerous dog with a certain breed, and bans or restricts certain breeds based on identity, not behavior of a specific animal. BSL identifies a dog as "dangerous" based upon its breed alone and not based on any action or offense that the individual dog has ever committed Breed-specific legislation is not an effective approach for regulating dogs' behavior in communities. Although such bans might comfort individuals who have had unpleasant experiences with particular breeds or have heard of attacks by specific dog breeds in the media, the bans do not act to effectively regulate the behavior of any breed or of dogs and their owners collectively.

Sources
Ohio Valley Dog Owners, Inc., Breed Specific Legislation: Deeds, Not Breeds, at http://www.canismajor.com/orgs/ovdo/bs101.html.
Humans4antiBSL, Frequently Asked Questions, at http://www.geocities.com/mncinder/ FAQ.htm (last visited on March 11, 2001).

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[candylandathome]

dont ever take a bath

[Fayclis]

Short, sweet and to the point. Well done.

[FallingandRunning]

@chadpopstar

Well it's not a rarity, it's just that the media isn't loud about it.

August 21 2007- woman attacked by her two pits, has severe injuries but lives. It's covered in over 230 news articles, and broadcasted on major news networks like CNN, MSNBC and FOX

August 18, 2007- A lab mix attacked a 70 year old man and sent him to the hospital in critical condition and officers shot the dog when it charged them. This incident was reported in one article and only in the local paper.

[FallingandRunning]

@chadpopstar

There's the american pit bull terrier(UKC), American

Staffordshire Terrier (AKC), and the Staffordshire

Bull Terrier (AKC) who are often grouped as pits. If you look into any reputable kennel, you'll find there is no 'pit bull.' Outside of that group though, there are many purebreeds often mistaken for one of the three, just take the 'find the pit quiz.'

Then of course there's the American Bully, not a breed and often mixed with mastiffs but the media calls them pit bulls too.

[haleyvandewalle]

so, your saying that you love animals? but you are a hipocrit. 'oh, lets save this animal, but not this one, or this one, or this one. but lets save this one.'

[blackeye240]

(sorry accidently hit post)

and aspirin

[blackeye240]

its not that the owners teach them to attack and kill though that is sometimes the case (see the video of the animal control officer attacked by a pit) its that they leave them in their back yard chained up often without food and no socialization or exercise

their animals dude u leave them like that they get aggressive theres a reason only in in 204,000 pits kill

and statistically yes u r more likely to be killed climbing into the bath tub struck by lightening and

[tomdkg]

Crazy! Breeds are NOT dangerous- individual dogs can pose a danger; often through no fault of their own. In the UK we have "Pit Bull Type" legislation, a total mess, leading to amazing confusion over what a Pit Bull is anyway! Those promoting such tosh need to look at the man/dog relationship over centuries. They could visit some of the war dog sites to see how thousands of lives have been saved over years, compared to relatively few nasty incidents usualy down to humans stupidity.

[PawsitivePitBulls]

best vid. ever on bsl!!

keep em coming!!

[fujifig]

People always judge dogs based only on what breed(s) they are and they don't ever think that one dog will be different from any other. According to that logic, all golden retrievers love kids, all yorkies never shut up, and all pitbulls want to eat your face. People always think my dog's vicious when they see him, they never think that a DoberPit could ever be anything other than a monster. It's sick.