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Santa Cruz County, California to Propose Mandatory Microchipping Ordinance for Cats, Dogs
For months I have seen many emotional articles about pets being reunited with their owners thanks, say the articles, to that beautiful piece of technology called the RFID microchip. I call these kinds of articles “primers” because they get you ready to accept things like, Santa Cruz County, California‘s proposal to require all dogs…
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How Dangerous Dog Registries are Unconstitutional and Dangerous in and of Themselves
With cities like Macomb, Illinois, and states like Michigan, currently considering so-called dangerous or vicious dog registries, we thought we’d weigh in. Yes, I hate to keep beating the same drum about the unconstitutionality of particularly animal-related legislation, but I’m going to: What do politicians not understand about the reverence with which they should…
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Springfield, Missouri May Remove Breed-Specific Language from Existing Ordinance in Favor of a Dangerous Dog Provision
From KY3 in Springfield, Missouri: The city of Springfield is considering revamping its vicious animal ordinance, to include all breeds of dogs. A task force could make some recommendations to the City Council this year. Right now, pit bull owners definitely have to jump through the most hoops to own that dog — like…
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It is Well Past Time to Take a New Approach Toward “Dangerous” Dogs and Look to Their Owners Instead
Furor over the U.K.’s 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act (which banned many breeds of dog) has reached fever pitch. A veterinarian writing an opinion column in today’s London Daily Telegraph wrote that, Existing legislation has failed to reduce the number of dog bite incidents in the UK, which have risen in the past five years…
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How Dangerous Dog Laws Can Be Deadly
While we do advocate for dangerous dog laws here at NoPitBullBans.com, we do so with a little bit of tremulousness. It’s more precise to say we advocate for dangerous dog owner laws. Why? Because many dangerous dog laws still put the onus on the dog instead of its owner.
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Free-Roaming Dogs an Ongoing Problem
Inside Edition today reported on a mother in California who recently had to shoot a stray dog that attacked her two daughters as they stood on their front lawn. The dog’s breed was believed to be a Boxer, but as ever, the breed is not what makes a dog potentially dangerous; the fact that…
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Superior Court Judge Rejects Spokane, Washington’s Dangerous Dog Law as Unconstitutional
From the Spokesman Review: “Spokane’s “dangerous dog” ordinance is unconstitutional because it denies pet owners the right of due process, a Superior Court judge ruled Friday in a case that may have far-reaching effects. As a matter of law, the administrative procedures used in the city of Spokane regarding “dangerous dog” determinations and appeals from…
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Logan, West Virginia Passes Ordinance Requiring $300 Registration for “Dangerous” Dogs
From Fox 11 Eyewitness News in West Virginia: “Logan’s City Council quickly and unanimously passed an ordinance cracking down on dangerous dogs. The new law requires a three hundred dollar registration fee for such dogs…an expense some say they can’t afford.”
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Wisdom From Across the Pond
According to K9 Magazine, “What the victim[s] of [dog attacks] fail…to realise is that, if every dog capable of inflicting a bite on a human was destroyed, we would have no dogs left/Every dog is capable of an attack, but no dog just “turns” or “goes for someone”. Dogs are not capable of unprovoked aggression,…