Many animal shelters are flooded with dogs who, because
of breed bans, can't be adopted to the people in their communities.
But animal organizations say
breed bans don't keep residents safe because they fail to target the real problem: irresponsible pet owners.
Other cities across the country flirt
with breed bans even as some states try to reverse the trend with laws prohibiting local breed - specific laws.
Numerous professional and legal organizations have come forward to strongly oppose the Aurora
breed ban legislation.
Learn the truth
about breed bans, and help your community become a place where dogs aren't judged by their looks, but by their behavior.
Breed bans usually require all dogs of a certain appearance be removed; destroyed / killed.
Responsible owners of entirely friendly, properly supervised and well - socialized dogs who happen to fall within the regulated breed are required to comply with
local breed bans and regulations.
One of their main priorities is to ensure protection for pit bull terriers and they are working to
eliminate breed bans and other forms of discriminatory legislation.
A
full breed ban requires dogs of a particular appearance to be removed from the municipality where the ban has been implemented.
Yes the battle
from breed ban is far from over and this is a little victory but a victory nevertheless still.
Dog breed discrimination is wrong, and
breed ban laws do not keep the public safer.
It's thought this it because
breed bans give people the false confidence that there are no potentially dangerous dogs around.
I hope in the future opponents
of breed bans can point to these dogs as proof that it isn't the breed: it's the owner.
Breed - neutral legislation is cost effective in comparison to
outright breed ban and is more readily accepted for the most part.
We also continue to struggle with the large number of
breed bans in our region that are causing many pit bulls to become unnecessarily homeless and also eliminate many potential homes for the ones that are in the shelter.
Oklahoma City was not the only city in Oklahoma attempting to circumvent the state's ban
on breed bans.
Sam Basso noticed an alarming trend that cities all across the U.S. were considering and
passing breed ban legislation.
Fortunately, more people and their elected officials are learning
why breed bans don't make sense, and BSL is on the decline.
Loopholes such as home - rule legislation — legislation that allows for the transfer of authority from state to local government — are utilized to allow counties or cities to
enact breed bans regardless of state law.
Montreal passed a Pit
Bull breed ban after a «Pit Bull» had killed a woman.
If approved the proposed amendment would void the
current breed ban in Prince George's County, where about 900 pit bulls and pit bull mixes are euthanized a year, according to the federation.
In a 2012 article about the long -
standing breed ban in Miami - Dade County, Fla., Kathy Labrada, then head of animal services enforcement, admitted that the ban had been a failure.
The bylaw officers in Calgary have taken a stand
against breed banning, and responded to dog bite concerns with a tougher licensing program and stronger enforcement.
Be ready to elaborate on each of these points, as well as explain
how breed bans force responsible owners with good dogs to choose between surrendering their best friend to a shelter or moving out of the community.
In 2014 I also wrote a column about a position paper I co-authored for the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior on why
community breed bans (banning pit bull - type dogs, and often other breeds) have not worked.
At no point have they ever been banned in this country, there are no
dog breeds banned in NZ.
dog bites do not decrease in communities
where breed bans and / or regulations have been passed.
I stood on the steps of the California State House to
ensure breed ban legislation (BSL) would not impact our beloved bully breeds.
Within days, dog
breed banning lists included Rottweilers, Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers, Dalmatians, Shari Peis, Bulldogs, German Shepherd Dogs, Dobermans, Rhodesian Ridgebacks, any type of Mastiff dogs and Chow Chows.
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The
UK breed ban has been a huge failure — not only failing to protect the public from severe bites, but actually, through focusing on the wrong issues, having the opposite impact that was intended.
Even though California law
prohibits breed bans, it allows local agencies to enact breed - specific programs for spaying and neutering to control over-population of a certain breed.
This just puts a «pit» in my stomach every time I read about these types of incidents as I know it could happen to me, except that I am fortunate to live in an area that I don't believe would institute an all -
out breed ban.
Military families with banned dogs are feeling the effect of BSL two-fold: unable to live on - base due to military pet regulations, and unable to live off - base because of
municipal breed bans.
Quebec's proposed Bill 128 will remove important protections for animals, and create the world's largest
breed ban targeting pit...
BSL restrictions may include a
total breed ban, or some lesser rules such as (but not limited to): higher licensing fees, registering the dog as dangerous with local governments, liability insurance coverage, mandatory sterilization, muzzling on public property, placement of warning signage on private property, and standardized caging requirements.
In 2008 she first learned about Breed Discriminatory Legislation, and that
breed bans exist in many countries in Europe and large cities in the US.
That is simply a myth that has resulted in BSL and
unwritten breed bans and death for thousands of family pets.
Since breed bans rarely grandfather in people who already own the banned breeds, the city can legally take your dog away from you.
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