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Riverside County, California Mandatory Spay/Neuter Law for “Pit Bulls” on Board Agenda For Sept. 24, 2013
While breed-specific legislation (BSL) requiring “pit bull” owners to spay and neuter their dogs may seem different than an out-and-out ban on “pit bulls,” it’s really not. BSL — whether it bans your dog or merely restricts your dog in some way — is still BSL; it’s still the same old tired, impotent, unenforceable…
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Great Bend, Kansas Ad Hoc Committee Makes Final Recommendations Minus a “Pit Bull” Ban
The ad hoc committee tasked with researching a “pit bull” ban by the Great Bend, Kansas City Council made its final report on September 1, 2013. To its credit, the committee determined early on to not recommend a breed ban. Reportedly, the final recommendations include: ¢ Restrictions on tethering dogs. ¢ A new ordinance…
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Waterloo, Iowa to Consider BSL Via “Pit Bull” Restrictions
After 65-year old Vivienne Brookman and 13-year-old William McNealy were attacked by what was described as a “large pit bull” by police, Waterloo, Iowa Mayor Buck Clark publicly stated that the attacks were “something we need to react to.” That “reaction” will come in the form of a breed-specific law (BSL) proposal — which…
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Watertown, Wisconsin Inflexible on “Pit Bull” Ban; Resident Gets Frosty Reception
When last we heard from Watertown, Wisconsin, it sounded like the Safety and Welfare Committee and the city council were willing to take into account their constituents’ worries about being made to choose between their homes and their dogs. However, Alderman Bob Stocks, who had prior been sympathetic to his constituents’ concerns about the…
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Chicago and Its Media Continue to Push Farce that Dogs in 3 Year-Old’s Attack Were “Pit Bulls”
As I’ve been writing, so-called “pit bull” attacks that occurred repeatedly in California (almost all of which were drug-related, but which were reported by the media as due to “pit bulls”) coincidentally, or maybe not so coincidentally, happened just as Riverside County was considering a mandatory spay/neuter law and as it was suggested that California…
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Cypress, California May Consider Breed-Specific Mandatory Spay/Neuter Ordinance
Editor’s note: Animal Control may maintain that there are issues with dogs in Cypress, but so-called “dog issues” are always resultant of people issues. Since there has been no elaboration on what those issues are, we are left to surmise that they could be anything from free-roaming dogs to gangs or drugs. Whatever…
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Ypsilanti Township, Michigan Considering Mandatory Spay/Neuter Law for “Pit Bulls”
Editor’s note: Please contact the Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees here and politely inform them that since almost any medium- and large-breed dog (and I guess even Chihuahuas!) can be called a “pit bull,” though “pit bull” is not a breed, that perhaps the Humane Society of Huron Valley’s stats on “pit bulls” might be…
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Barstow, California May Consider Mandatory Spay/Neuter Ordinance for “Pit Bulls”
From the Victorville Daily Press: A consultant working with Barstow to update its vicious-dog ordinance recommends that the city consider a mandatory spay-and-neuter law. But whether that law would require all dog owners to fix their animals or only to pit bull owners is up to city officials, he says.
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With Elected Officials Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
Heavens to murgatroid, what is becoming of this country? On the one hand we have very power-drunk nanny-staters who push overly-bureaucratic legislation like breed bans, and on the other hand we have racist podunkers who pass the same breed-specific legislation only with a racist bent. The former, the nanny-staters, we lobby against every…
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Indianapolis, Indiana May Soon Consider Mandatory Spay/Neuter for “Pit Bulls”
From the Indianapolis Star: …Councilman Mike Speedy has crafted a proposal on “dangerous dogs” that he expects to submit to the full council sometime this month — and one that almost certainly will face stiff opposition. His proposal not only would require that all pit bulls in the county be spayed or neutered but also…