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Did Yakima, WA Uphold Its Pit Bull Ban Using Fudged Pit Bull Intake Numbers?
Tell me if you’ve heard this one: How can you tell if a politician is lying? Their lips are moving. How about a Code Enforcement Manager? Because a mere day before Yakima, Washington inexplicably upheld its impotent 26-year old pit bull ban, the Yakima Herald reported that Code Enforcement Manager Joe Caruso’s…
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Is Purdue’s Alan Beck Pushing BSL Via His Student and Debunked Pit Bull Urban Mythology?
Perhaps you’ve had the same experience, but some of the most clueless people I ever met in my life held Ph.D.s. It’s like they’re idiot savants. They claim to know a lot about one topic, and even that may be suspect, but are ignorant everywhere else. It appears such may be the…
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Yakima, Washington to Discuss Possible Pit Bull Ban Repeal Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013
As I’ve been writing here, here, and here, Yakima, Washington has for many months now, been considering a repeal of their circa 1987 pit bull ban in favor of a possible update to their existing dangerous dog ordinance. Yet despite all the testimony about the inefficacy of breed-specific legislation (BSL), Yakima’s City Code Enforcement…
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Ottawa, Kansas Will Conduct Public Hearing Regarding Existing Pit Bull Ban
After wasting an alarming amount of time trying to find Ottawa, Kansas’ existing breed-specific legislation (BSL) on their labyrinth of a city site, here is their existing pit bull ban ordinance under section 3-329 entitled “Pit bulls; keeping prohibited.” It has all the usual garbage you would expect to find from a “model” pit…
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Is Pasadena, CA Seeking Mandatory Spay Neuter for Pit Bulls as Retribution or to Racially Profile?
Recently, when the Pasadena City Council was considering a mandatory spay/neuter (MSN) ordinance for all dog owners, advocates claimed the political maneuver was really a “thinly veiled attack on pit bulls.” Instead of pulling back in light of such criticism, it looks like the Pasadena City Council just decided to acknowledge that, yes, they…
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Newark, Ohioan Seeks to Remove Vicious Designation for Pit Bulls Via Canine Good Citizen Test
It’s understandable when owners of banned or restricted breeds seek to minimize breed-specific restrictions by suggesting additional legislation that they believe will take the stigma off of their dogs. But I find that trying to “compromise” with the irrational people who propose breed-specific legislation (BSL) is like negotiating with terrorists. You just shouldn’t…
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Manderson, Wyoming Looks to Add Rottweilers, Dobermans to Existing Pit Bull Ban
Perhaps Manderson, Wyoming should take a hint from Greybull, Wyoming and back away from their breed-specific legislation (BSL). But not only is Manderson not backing away from their existing pit bull ban, they are now proposing to add Rottweilers and Dobermans to their breed ban. We’ve seen this before. Communities who ban one…
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Greybull, Wyoming Turns Away From Breed-Specific Legislation; Opts for Dangerous Dog Law Instead
As I wrote in October, Greybull, Wyoming had already passed a first reading of a very drastic breed-specific law (BSL) that would have severely restricted so-called pit bulls in a feigned attempt to protect them. Yet what Animal Control Officer Doug Youngerman had proposed would actually have codified animal abuse since the proposal required…
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Hot Springs Village, Arkansas: Man Whose Wife is Mauled by Mastiff Wants Pit Bull Restrictions
Well here’s a new twist. Usually we see mastiffs being mistaken for so-called pit bulls and then consequently a pit bull ban is called for even though it was really a mastiff that did the attacking. In Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, Hans Kappen’s wife was mauled to death by a Bull Mastiff on…
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Beebe, Arkansas Seeks to Combine Pit Bull Ban with Vicious Dog Category Since BSL is Not Working
According to the Beebe News in Beebe, Arkansas, Mayor Mike Robertson and the city’s attorney Barrett Rodgers, may combine the ordinance language that bans so-called pit bulls with the ordinance language related to vicious dogs. Beebe already has a breed-specific law (BSL) banning so-called pit bulls, or “Pit Bulls and others in that category…