One of the few pieces of smart legislation that Virginia passed was a "dangerous owner" law, which puts the responsibility for animal attacks on the owner, where it belongs, not the breed . Interesting piece of trivia: One of the biggest supporters of breed listing and breed specific legislation is PETA, apparantly the woman that runs it was attacked by a "pit bull" when she was younger. Consequently she wants to euthanize all companion animals
Go here http://www.petakillsanimals.com to see how they handle companion animals Scott A. Stewart REAC/PASS-IT (202)-475-8875 Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/09/2006 10:38 PM Please respond to cf-community To: CF-Community <[email protected]> cc: (bcc: Scott A. Stewart/REAC/HHQ/HUD) Subject: Re: For all you big dog lovers. > Animal Control handled him, but just barely. The guy was going to > just shoot him because he was so violent and almost too big for the > animal wagon cages, but he finally choked him so hard that he passed > out a little and was easier to handle after that. Wow, what a horrible experience to go through. That's very unusual for the breed if it was a mastiff, but sounds like the dog may have been abused if it was chained up, and just about any breed of dog can become aggressive when treated badly. That's one reason many of us in the dog fancy are against breed-specific legislation that targets dogs like pit bulls. It really doesn't matter what breeds you outlaw, the people that abuse and fight dogs will just move on to other breeds. --- Mary Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:217188 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
