BSL Awareness

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WE NEED TO ALL WORK TOGETHER TO STOP THE INSANITY OF BSL

What Is It?

Breed-specific legislation is designed to place restrictions on owning certain breeds of dogs. Typically, the restricted breeds include those that are popularly believed to be inherently aggressive.

Breed-specific legislation creates a number of restrictions or regulations on any one breed.
Owners of certain breeds of dogs may be required to:
Keep the dog muzzled in public
Purchase insurance for the dog
Keep the dog on its owner’s property at all times (no trips to the park, the store, etc.)
Keep the dog in a specific enclosure at all times.

The most common kind of breed-specific legislation completely bans all dogs of a certain breed! This means that all dogs of the banned breed must be removed from the area or euthanized.

Why It Doesn’t Work

Breed-specific legislation requires that every dog be classified as a certain breed. This is not always easy to do! Are Staffordshire Bull Terriers the same as American Pit Bull Terriers? They are very similar breeds in temperament and appearance! Are American Bulldogs included under general legislation against Pit Bull dogs? What about mixed breed dogs? What about “mutts”?

What happens once a certain breed is banned? If pit bull terriers are banned, what stops a vicious person from getting a Rottweiler or German Shepherd? The reason pit bulls rank so highly in the annual deadly dog bite statistics is not because the dogs are vicious, but because they are frequently owned by cruel, heartless owners that breed and train for fighting and “guarding”. So, what happens when those sick, twisted people are blocked from owning pit bulls? They’ll probably just get some other breed to do the job. Indeed, across the decades we have seen those bad owners create bad reputations for Dobermans, then Rottweilers, and now to pit bulls. Banning a breed punishes the innocent dogs, not the sicko creeps that want to create a vicious dog.

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