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Originally posted by Stephen Collington:
They are illegal in Ontario:
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Not just in Ontario, Stephen:
There are 250 cities in The United States which have various laws regarding the breeding and owning of pit bulls.
Regardless of the city specific laws, virtally all animal shelters which receive the breed are prohibited from offering them for adoption.
Q: What's the best thing we can do for communities and pit bulls?
The best thing we can do for communities and pit bulls is to limit their ownership and population. Fewer pit bulls means fewer human maulings and pit bull euthanizations. Animal People News reports that in 2007, US shelters killed about 1.4 million dogs; pit bulls and their mixes made up 750,000 of them.12
Most metropolitan animal shelters are plagued with high occupancy rates of pit bulls. Because of behavioral problems and liability costs, shelters won't adopt these dogs out. Instead, they are forced to euthanize them. Many pit bull advocates ignore this injustice, even though they claim to "love" the breed.
Over 250 cities have adopted breed-specific laws to address the pit bull problem. Such measures include mandatory sterilization laws and banning pit bull breeding. The most progressive legislation bans new pit bulls from entering a community at all. In just a few years, these cities see a significant drop in pit bull bites, euthanization rates and abuse.
http://www.dogsbite.org/dangerous-dogs-pitbull-faq.htm
It's not that they're more likely to bite than other dogs - it's that they're much more likely to refuse to let go once they do. I've seen first hand the damage they can do.
I've yet to figure out why anyone, male or female, would be proud to be known as either a pit bull or a barracuda. Neither have very many redeeming qualities.
Lo
P.S. Just as an aside, I grew up on the South Side of Chicago - not too very far from where Obama did his community organizing. I gotta tell ya, he went willingly into an area where very few men or woman were willing to go. Even the residents were desperate to get out. No one went there - NO ONE. You didn't even drive past it if you could avoid it. It made my own neighborhood look like Disney Land and believe me, I didn't grow up in Disney Land.
I'm pretty sure even the pit bulls feared and avoided it.
And he changed it.