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Apopli

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We are enlisting the help of fellow Ontarians and dog lovers to sign the petition to be sent to Mr. Michael J Bryant to pass on how we feel about the Pitbull ban proposition.

Mr. Bryant has requested that people send their feelings about the proposed ban on
the pitbull breed, and a petition has been put together by Christina Le Breton of Ciera Canine Services of Sault Ste Marie ( http://www.cieracanineservices.ca ) Ontario in order to show the McGuinty government that banning the breed is not the answer.

We encourage every one of you who feels the same to sign the petition.

http://www.petitiononline.com/12512pit/petition.html

Thanks
 
Its probably the same reason some cities here in the states ban them. Their bad, however undeserved, reputation. In some places pitbulls taken into shelters are automatically euthanized because they aren't seen fit to be adopted out... maybe b/c of the likelyhood they have been used for fighting?
I don't agree with this at all, but i understand that in most places where they do this there is a pretty good chance that they were used for fighting., which is unfortunate for pitbulls.
Anyway, thats not the topic i guess.. just me rambling. so yeah, they are probably trying a ban in Canada because of the stupid owners who don't know how to or want to handle their dogs responsibly.
 
SailfinGirl said:
Why are they trying to ban pitbulls?
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2 pretty bad attacks in less then a month, someone almost lost an arm due to 1 of the attacks?

i won't be sad to see them go but. i will be sad to see the families lose the ones they raise with care

my friend has a pitbull that's scared of its own shadow
 
Sadly in Ontario Canada there is a thriving underground dog fighting business going on, using alot of Pitbulls. It used to be at cockfighting venues that all the drug dealing went on, now its the dog fighting rings where it happens. I am thinking puppies from these deliberately vicious bred dogs get sold elsewhere.

Personally I'm fine if they ban pitbulls. A man walking two pitbulls last week had both of them unexpectedly turn on him. The police had to fire 16 bullets into those dogs to stop them attacking him. Can't say that sounds like family pet or even good neighbour material to me. I've read too many accounts now of pitbulls tearing through hedges and over fences to get at and kill toddlers and maim people and kids.

I am wondering though if the same thing couldn't be done for Pitbulls that was done for Dobermanns? It was brought up on the cable tv show Daily Planet, how the breeders in North America began breeding out all the aggressive tendencies Dobermann's were known for and now you have a very trustable family dog, quite likeable and gentle...in North America that is. The same could in theory be done for Pitbulls. The way things are going, it needs to be done FAST or bans will come into place everywhere on them.

I wonder if anybody ever considered breeding out the aggressiveness in those Spanish fighting bulls? Can you imagine the matador's face if the bull walked up and licked him? Frankly, given how cruel bull fighting is to the animals I think they ought to arm the bulls with more than sharp horns and attitude, an UZI sounds about right!
 
Personally, I would never have a pitbull. I think they are the dogs which one of our princesses has, and they attacked and killed one of the queens corgis, and attacked a child and because she was a princess the dog wasn't destroyed.

I don't like pitbulls.
 
Spanish bulls used for bull fighting are tormented into attacking- they are not born bad. A baby calf is the sweetest thing you can imagine. I have heard that bulls used in rodeos are also tormented into bucking. Perhpas Im wrong but I still dont agree with rodeos.

I also wouldnt miss pitbulls. as long as they are around people will be eager to make money from pitting these powerful and potentially dangerous dogs against each other. perhaps if these dogs are banned, rottweilers will be next on teh cards for the dog fighters. IMO, an equally dangerous breed.

My little terrier type was attacked by a rottie right outside a school. the rottweiler was clearly too big and too dangerous to be controlled by the owner and I feel that is the case of most rottweilers. if a rottie wants to go somewhere, it will. if it cant be controlled, it shouldnt be kept as a pet. bearing in mind that I was walking the dog to my karate class where a class for children was about to kick out. what if the mutt attacked one of the children instead? Im talking anywhere from aged 4-15. someone else who goes there could easily have brought her little border terrier along, as she frequently does. If the rottie had got his teeth into that, there would have been no contest.
A few weeks later, my dad was walking our dog and starting talking to another dog owner, whose dog, a Labrador, had also been attacked by this rottweiler and now was scared of his own shadow.

Most breeds with bad reputations didnt get them for nothing.
 
SailfinGirl said:
Personally, I would never have a pitbull. I think they are the dogs which one of our princesses has, and they attacked and killed one of the queens corgis, and attacked a child and because she was a princess the dog wasn't destroyed.

I don't like pitbulls.
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Princess Anne's dog is not a pitbull.

She has English Bull Terriers which are a completely different breed (and generally fairly good natured)
 
fraservet said:
SailfinGirl said:
Personally, I would never have a pitbull. I think they are the dogs which one of our princesses has, and they attacked and killed one of the queens corgis, and attacked a child and because she was a princess the dog wasn't destroyed.

I don't like pitbulls.
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Princess Anne's dog is not a pitbull.

She has English Bull Terriers which are a completely different breed (and generally fairly good natured)
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And this is the problem. People just tag the word "pitbull" on every dog that does something wrong.

A more recent dog attack that nearly killed two children, in fact, had the word pitbull all over it. Though as it turns out, it was a Golden Retriever.

Nevermind that a "pitbull" is not even a breed of dog, or the fact that there are real statistics taken by the government that proves that pitbulls arn't even in the top 5 breeds that cause dog attacks in Ontario. German Shepherds, Chow Chows, Cocker Spaniels, Golden Retrievers, and Akitas are the top 5.

It's all in the way all the stories are written. They use the word "Pitbull" all the way through the story, then around the end state that they actually have no idea what breed it is and just suspect pitbull, or that it's actually a mix breed.

The owners are the problems, not the dogs, and it's sad that thousands of dogs - well-tempered loving dogs - are going to be euthenized, and all for nothing. Kids are still going to get attacked, and people are going to find another breed to pick on.
 
Speaking as someone with Cynophobia; I would like to see all dogs
muzzled in public, personally I get the hebe-jebees when ever I see a dog.

Speaking as an animal lover; I don't see the point of banning one breed
of dog, just becuase of a few morons that don't know how to handle the breed.

I've signed.
 
I agree with Apopli. Like she said pit bulls aren't so much a breed as a "type" of dog.
True, pit bulls have been bred to be aggresive, a highly exaggerated version of what their ancestors, the wolves had. Just like border collies have been bred to exaggerate their herding (stalking, hunting) instinct. Given the chance a pitbull may want to fight other dogs, but its just plain cruel and irresponsible to let them do it. In a perfect world i think the aggresivness should be bred out of them, but lets face it.. thats not going to happen. Not with all the people who breed them specifically for fighting. On that note, i don't think we should be breeding ANY dogs, purebred or not, until the overpopulation is undercontrol... but thats a totally different thread.
What makes it even harder to stop is the fact that so many different types of people fight dogs. Its not just gangs, or poor neighborhoods, or out in the country, wealthy business people participate too. A lot of these dogs are worth thousands of dollars, and the owners just don't see that even though the dog's instincts tell it to fight, it doesn't validate letting them tear each other apart.
 
Find the Pitbull

This game demonstrates my point exactly. Click on the picture you think is a PitBull. When you click the correct dog you'll be redirected to a page that shows what each breed is - and how many tries it took you to find it.

The general public, media, and government alike can't recognize a Cano Corse from a Pitbull, from an AmStaff, from an American Bulldog, and these dogs are as different as a Pitbull is from a German Shepherd. All the Pitbull attacks? Are you so sure they even WERE Pitbulls?

Maybe it won't convince anyone to sign the petition, but I sure hope it sheds some light on the stupidity of banning a breed.
 
totally.
I have a white boxer and sooo many people think she's a pit bull.
 
In our city you have to have these "types" of dogs registered and carry a type of home-owners insurance to cover them being there.
 
It took me four tries. It is true that a lab may be responsible for some attacks, but a pitbull is more likely to attack something than a lab.

Re: Princess Anne, I get confused easily with the dog breeds, I know they look completely different, but the names have the same word in. Sorry! Why do I argue when I don't have a clue?
 
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