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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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Wilton, CT: Disinformation and Disinformers Abound in So-Called Pit Bull Attack
After the horrific attack by a so-called pit bull on Wilton, Connecticut resident Anne Murray over a week ago, the “official” story seems to have changed several times. For instance, as I wrote in my initial post about the Wilton case, headlines saying a woman’s arms had been ripped off, that she owned the…
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Flint MI: Will Pit Bull Language Really Be Removed from Ordinance Proposal, or is Councilman Neeley Double-Speaking?
Like others on Friday, I read Mlive’s article entitled “Flint councilman rethinks plan to single out pit bulls in proposed dog registry ordinance” and thought that Councilman Sheldon Neeley was removing the pit bull language from his pit bull registry ordinance proposal. That would be a reasonable conclusion considering three paragraphs into the article…
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Albany, Georgia to Propose Pit Bull Restrictions; Recites Long-Debunked Urban Mythology
It is astounding that in the age of the Internet a city government and a humane society will still recite long-ago debunked urban mythology about pit bulls as gospel truth, even as these lies have been discredited for many years. Yet the Albany, Georgia Board of City Commissioners and the Albany Humane Society are…
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Dardanelle, Arkansas Passes Profiling Pit Bull Ban?
Like so many of its neighbors, Dardanelle, Arkansas may have had an underlying agenda in passing breed-specific legislation (BSL) on Monday, November 4, 2013, when all but one of its council members voted to pass a pit bull ban. In communities attempting to “revitalize,” city councils often pass BSL in an attempt to rid…
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Riverside County, California Breed-Specific MSN Sees Pit Bull Owners Dumping Dogs, As Predicted
The county of Riverside, California’s breed-specific mandatory spay/neuter law (BS MSN), which is indeed breed-specific legislation, hasn’t even gone into effect yet, and there are already reports of owners dumping so-called pit bulls in what has come to be known as “dead dog alley,” a stretch of dirt road just inside the limits of the…
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Greybull, Wyoming Passes 1st Reading of Extreme Pit Bull Restrictions, Animal Control Measures
Greybull, Wyoming’s Animal Control officer, Doug Youngerman, has introduced several Animal Control measures that are both extreme and an invasion of privacy, not the least of which involves breed-specific legislation (BSL) for so-called pit bulls, which passed its first reading on Monday, October 21, 2013. Forget the absurdity of requiring a tiny town of approximately…
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Riverside County, California Passes Impotent Breed-Specific Mandatory Spay/Neuter Law for “Pit Bulls”
Congratulations are in order for the Riverside County, California Board of Supervisors who, on Oct. 8, 2013, unanimously voted to pass an impotent breed-specific mandatory spay/neuter law for “pit bulls.” We haven’t seen a breed-specific mandatory spay/neuter law in a while so I was trying to figure out how to describe them to those…
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Burnaby, British Columbia Still Defines “Pit Bulls” as “Vicious” Despite All Evidence to Contrary
British Columbia has always captivated me. It is a beautiful province, and I have long wanted to go there. But like with Toronto, I refuse to visit a place that has such ridiculous and even stupid governance. On Monday, September 30, 2013, the Burnaby, British Columbia City Council inexplicably unanimously decided to…
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Peoria, Illinois Councilwoman Beth Akeson Spews “Pit Bull” Urban Mythology as Fact
According to our favorite “pit bull” bashing rag the Peoria Journal Star, Peoria, Illinois, is looking at making changes to their Animal Control ordinance. As such, a task force, was convened and a public hearing held, during which Councilwoman Beth Akeson said: What is important for people to understand is pit bulls, when…