How do I get involved to support breed specific legislation?

What are national or state groups promoting breed specific legislation? |||You can join PeTA or the HSUS. You can also read the news reports and find the fors and againsts in your area. I do not support BSL. BSL is bad for all animal owners. Once one breed gets banned, other breeds can be banned even easier because a precedencee has been set.|||The same way that you get involved to STOP breed specific legislation...write your local law-maker.





You do realize that breed specific legislation doesn't actually work, right? There has never been a single study that shows a decrease in dog bites or attacks in areas where BSL has been enacted. In fact, in the ONLY case where there was a decrease in dog attacks after BSL was enacted studies proved that it was EDUCATION efforts (educating both dog owners on proper dog care and training and the public on how to act appropriately around dogs) and had nothing to do with the BSL at all.|||The best way would be to write your local elected official and make your interests known.





The problem with breed legislation, is upon banning one breed, the focus moves right onto the next.... German Shepherds, Dobermans, Rotweilers, now Pits.... and next Cane Corso's. Banning breeds isn't the answer, banning poor pet ownership is.|||*Seconds Darla*





You go to my house, I take you to my backyard to meet my pit bull mix, Star,who will probably wag her tail, sniff you, and lick you. THEN decide if you think these dogs are evil.





Also, come to my local shelter that's OVER RUN with pit bulls, look at those squirming little puppies that only want to feel your touch and experience a nice home and say you want them killed.





Then look at this video. Oh, those EVIL Am. Bulldogs! It must have thorns on its tongue! Ugh!





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D3dAeXuD鈥?/a>|||Before you even think of supporting legislation, you should educate yourself. Are you really thoroughly versed on the issue and the ramifications of BSL?





Take this site for example:


http://www.pbrc.net/breedspecific.html





Please do some more research before taking the drastic step of supporting further government infringement on our rights.|||Send this article to your legislators:





Dutch govt to lift pitbull ban


09/06/2008 21:20 - (SA)








Amsterdam - The Dutch government says it will lift a long-standing ban on pitbulls because it did not lead to any decrease in bite incidents.





Agriculture Minister Gerda Verburg has informed parliament of the decision, which follows the advice of a commission of experts appointed to review the policy.





Instead, the country will focus on enforcing local leashing laws and owner education programmes.





Spokesperson Koen Geelink said on Monday the ministry hopes to have a new policy in place by year-end, in which dogs that have displayed aggression will be tested by an expert.





The country banned the breeding and possession of pitbulls in 1993, ....|||1 - Educate yourself regarding the breed which you are supporting. You can't believe all you read! Meet dogs of this breed personally, visit shelters and get true information regarding the breed.





2 - Decide for your self if support of this legislation is honestly what you believe in.





3 - Determine if BSL has actually made a difference in the areas enacted through studies, and through personal experience. How can you support BSL if you have no first hand knowledge of the breed?





4 - Ask yourself if YOUR breed should be banned. Chances are you own a dog which others believe is 'bad' - YOUR breed could be next once precidence has been set.





5 - Decide if this is the road you wish to see traveled. Do you want to pay our lawmakers to determine what dogs we can or cannot own? Don't you think there are many more important things they should be doing - such as BALANCING BUDGETS, determining how to pay for their own health insurance just like the rest of America, and more importantly, passing term legislation so that career politicians are a thing of the past?





Best of luck in your research.|||Join PETA with the rest of the people full of fear and hate that want domestic animals extinct. (BSL is just another step towards that twisted goal they have.)





Do you realize that BSL won't stop the people that have these dogs for the wrong reasons? But it will hurt the *reasonsible* people. And you don't get to pick and choose, it's not just certain ones of the breed, it's all of them within the area. That means dogs like these would be banned as well:


http://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/200鈥?/a>


http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/dogs/i/a鈥?/a>


http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/鈥?/a>


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