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Originally Posted by deonk1  Well last week a woman (who I later found out was my aunts good friend) was attacked by a pit bull in my home community.
There is a huge meeting tomorrow with the mayor and council to decide how to proceed. There has been talk of new leash and muzzle laws, and lord knows what else.
While I'm deeply sorry for this woman who is in critical condition and I'm praying for her recovery (and ask that you all do too). I find it extremely frustrating that tomorrow council is probably going to blame the dog. I find this saddening, it breaks my heart that this town's dog owners are going to get punished for one ignorant person's foolishness (owner of pit bull).
So please pray that this woman recovers, and also please pray that council understands that it is not a problem with the breed, but a problem with the people owning them. |
If you get a chance to speak, try to bring up whatever exisiting laws are already on the books. There are usually state and county laws that cover
owners not controling dogs, not keeping them leashed, restrained, fenced, etc.... There usually is NO REASON to make a new law, merely stronger enforcement of the ones already on the books.
You are so right that it is the
owners and not the dogs to be blamed. In the case of some breeds, I feel man has done wrong in creating the potential for so much destruction. Still, no reason to punish the dog itself. I do believe in spay and neutering dangerous dogs though. I wish pit bulls had never been created. They were made for death and they cannot be blamed when that happens. I know if I had a family member killed by a dog, I would probably feel like the dog should be put down. Strangely though, I don't think I would feel the same for myself. If a dog attacks me, I don't necessarily want it put down. If it was a continuing behavior, then maybe so. But
only if serious attempts to train the dog had failed. We created them, we owe them the training needed to coexist safely.
But no matter how much training they have, no matter how sweetly they have behaved, I still believe in
constant vigilance and serious alert when a child or other pet is involved. There is just too much chance of them reverting to nature and reacting when a child moves too quickly at them or a small dog like our yorkies goes into attack mode. Suddenly the dog that "was always such a sweetheart, never heart a soul, wouldn't hurt anyone"
DOES!