[ZTWsquared]

Flofocus,Apr 4 2007, 04:28 PM Wrote:

ZTWsquared,Apr 4 2007, 03:15 PM Wrote:Just because they're pets and they have a special place in our society is no reason to throw good and common sense out the window when it comes to the safety and well being of our kids and anyone else at risk due to the irresponsible ownership of dogs capable of killing.
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lol, I'm thinking the same thing, just completely in the other direction ;)
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So you think common sense says "do nothing" ... because IIRC that's all your advocating. If so ... which of the following applies to you:

1) There is no problem.
2) Yeah people get mauled and killed by dogs but that's life - deal.
3) The problem isn't the dog it's the owner - let's punish the owner.
4) The dog isn't the problem, so there is no solution.

Frankly I'm not satisfied to sit back and do nothing. Is banning a breed the ideal solution? No. But in the absence of any other reasonable solution I'll take it.

All I've heard from the other side is ... "it's not fair, it's not right, it won't work" ... and to some degree all of those statements might be true. But what I haven't heard is a viable alternate solution.

If reasonable owners like you want to make sure that your breed and others don't have the same fate, then maybe as a group you'll start working towards better educating the irresponsible owners about who and what they put at risk.

And it's more than the safety and well-being of people at risk ... it's whether or not society is willing to accept certain breeds of dogs in our midst at all; or put another way, your priviledge of owning the breed you want is at risk.

In the meantime I will continue to advocate any idea that has some semblance of a solution because given what's at stake, even a half-assed solution is better than just sitting on your hands and doing nothing about it.

If nothing else this law has already proven to be successful because of the awareness its created and because it has people talking about a problem that's flown beneath the radar for far too long.