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Monday 15 September 2014

WHAT DOES HAPPEN UNDER BREED-SPECIFIC LEGISLATION?

WHAT DOES HAPPEN UNDER BREED-SPECIFIC LEGISLATION?
Innocent people continue to be threatened, bitten, traumatized, disfigured, and killed—by non-targeted breeds and types of dogs.
Innocent dogs are killed because they look a certain way.
Millions of dollars are wasted and animal control resources stretched thin in order to kill dogs and not save people.
Abusive and irresponsible owners carry on with “business as usual.”
Good owners and their families are outcasts (if they keep their targeted dog) or devastated (if they give up their targeted dog).
Reason, science, and expertise gets ignored or, even worse, scoffed at.
Nobody learns anything about the real reasons why dogs bite and attack, safety around dogs, or responsible dog ownership.
Breed-specific legislation makes victims of us all.

In the United States, those opposed to the restrictions imposed by breed specific legislation challenge the law based on its over-inclusiveness and its failure to allow due to process for the individual dog owner.

  Is breed specific legislation effective in achieving its stated goals? If one reviews findings in the scientific literature addressing this question, the overwhelming conclusion is that it is not.

For example, a recent publication adds weight to the argument against the effectiveness of BSL by reporting the use of a statistic technique that has hitherto not been applied: namely, calculating the number of dogs from a target breed that would be needed to be banned or have restrictions imposed to affect a reduction in a desired outcome (for example, a desired outcome would be the reduction in the number of hospitalizations resulting from dog bite injury) (Patronek, G., M. Slater, A. Marder. J. American Veterinary Medical Association, 2010, 237, 788-792).

"the U.S. had a grand total of 15 dog attack fatalities: 
9 by pit bulls, 2 by Dobermans, four by unidentified

mutts." ,, you see this is were i have the problem, you see BSL targets pitbulls and assuming this statements right then, that means even if BSL works a charm what about the 6 deaths involving non pitbulls?? doesn't anyone care about them? just because it wasn't a pitbull that killed them, they're still dead though are they not?, So these 6 dead mean nothing and it's perfectly acceptable for there to be deaths by dog attacks?

So long as they're not pitbulls?? this is the massive big hole in the logic of BSL,  it only protects and or prevents victims of pitbulls,  not any other breed it's as if they're saying there's an acceptable level of deaths by dog?  Any law for it to work has to breed neutral as that's the only way to stop all the deaths, BSL  is only meant to stop pitbull bites??

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