Marty
08-13-2008, 02:53 PM
Vancouver,BC,Canada -- Pit bulls are banned in Ontario, but all that has done is to drive the breeding underground.
Illegal breeding is rampant, with pit bulls being bred not for temperament, but for money and aggressiveness.
Banning pit bulls has been a nightmare. The enforcement issues are overwhelming. In many cases, reliably establishing a cross breed as being a pit-bull cross is difficult or impossible
So, people simply get pit crosses and categorize them as boxer crosses, bulldog crosses or any number of other breeds.
Rather than passing breed-specific legislation, it's much better to invoke responsible pet ownership standards, as Calgary has done.
Calgary's rate of aggressive incidents dropped by three-quarters when it focused responsibility on the owner instead of on the dog.
Breed bans don't work. All they do is create an underground network where dogs are hidden to avoid the law. This makes it very difficult to hold irresponsible owners accountable.
Susan Weldon, Windsor, Ont.
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/letters/story.html?id=f9c9dfd5-bdb9-4f5f-8dde-22414271d016
Illegal breeding is rampant, with pit bulls being bred not for temperament, but for money and aggressiveness.
Banning pit bulls has been a nightmare. The enforcement issues are overwhelming. In many cases, reliably establishing a cross breed as being a pit-bull cross is difficult or impossible
So, people simply get pit crosses and categorize them as boxer crosses, bulldog crosses or any number of other breeds.
Rather than passing breed-specific legislation, it's much better to invoke responsible pet ownership standards, as Calgary has done.
Calgary's rate of aggressive incidents dropped by three-quarters when it focused responsibility on the owner instead of on the dog.
Breed bans don't work. All they do is create an underground network where dogs are hidden to avoid the law. This makes it very difficult to hold irresponsible owners accountable.
Susan Weldon, Windsor, Ont.
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/letters/story.html?id=f9c9dfd5-bdb9-4f5f-8dde-22414271d016