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Yeah your right, one dog attack is to many. I'm pretty we can both agree on that, so why bring it up?

1) Control Breeding and breeders with better laws. We bred dog agreesion in em, let's breed it out of them. Stop the puppy mills. Stop the breeders than churn these guys out @ $1200 a pop or more. All for the money....not for the love of a dogs. This will help a lot also on controlling the overpopulation of bully breeds, fawk, any overpopulation in our local humane societies.

3) Then we need to change our current licensing laws. Fawk this banning breed bulls*** . We have licenses for cars, guns, hunting, fishing, we need em for dogs. Obedience classes should be mandatory. When your even thinking about getting a dog, you should be in some sort of info seminar on teh available breeds and what the breed was about.

You shot them down, what else do you want me to say? You already know our government would be to lazy to set some sort of governing party for breeders & pet owners. You already know there such things in place for Zoos, restauraunts, smoking in public, unions, etc. Your already know your all for band aid solutions.

When theyre is greed involved, you need to control it. Breeders and the multiple assciations is clearly not enuff. Rules need to be set. By governments. And enforced. Once those rules are set, you will see people treating their dogs like they should, breeders breeding with responsibility, and a reduction in stray animals that end up in the shelters/fighting pits.

People are scared of guns, we try and control them, let's try harder with the above.

People are scared of a lot of things? Shall I change my life around for all the other things to?

I don't muzzle my dog because I honestly want to get a ticket and fight it. Prove a point. If the law was "any person with a 'large' breed must muzzle their animal in public" Then my attitude would really change.

Its a band aid solution. Simple as that, one that will just need more band aids.

Pitbull mauls child, piutbull killed. Pitbull owner gets a rotweiler, rotweiler attackes another dog, rotweiler killed. We ban rotties. Rotweiler and ex pitbull owner gets a cane corso, cane corso attacks kid, we ban the cane corsos....

I know it probably wont happen, but thats what were doing, were not going deep enuff into the problem.

And if you think I haven't written to my political parties about this issue, the local newspapers, your wrong. I have, but when its 80 against 20, you get drowned out by the other 'noise'.

Anyways, going in circles. I really do give up.

EDIT: Ken, I really agree with what your saying for the most part. But banning specific breeds wont stop maulings. Like you, I respect animals, I'm aware of what they could potentially do. And as a dog lover consider those things when looking at dogs to join the family. Not all people do, it's to easy to get a dog, any dog for that matter. But I'm not going to stop enjoying my life because people are scared of my activities. Maybe that's selfish, I don't think it is. You respect the breed, but you clearly don't like it also. I don't like rotweilers, not my kind of dog, but I do respect them. Very much so.