KC Dog Blog has a good 'un this morning.

It's all about the Councillors in Ohio towns and the depths to which they are sinking in order to spread their tainted message.  It's kind of funny that they are writing letters to the editor, since local media have already proven themselves to be onside.

Two Ohio lawmakers are using the letters to the editors in their local newspapers to sell their ideas on banning 'pit bull' dogs in their cities...and when you dive into the logic, it's a bit scary.

KC, my man, you're a master of understatement.

It's downright frightening.

I didn't notice until Lori pointed it out that there were many intact dogs at Woofstock.

It's unlikely that the owners are all into neuticles, based on the general level of knowledge displayed by the majority of visitors.

It stands to reason that if there are a lot of intact dogs, then there are likely a lot of intact bitches.  Welcome to Kijiji World.

Only a small minority of dog owners visit Woofstock, so it's not possible to generalize across the population but it was interesting to note.

There were many odd-looking little dogs - snipey, frail and roach-backed with dull, sparse haircoats of indeterminate colour.

I guess these are the 'designer dogs' which are popular with the dedicated followers of fashion in the 21st century pet ownership community.

They are a sorry-looking lot indeed.  My two Toy dogs are robust, lively and healthy-looking - confident, even, albeit aloof with strangers, as they should be.

Of even greater interest was the preponderance of mastiff types.  In 2006, we saw two Cane Corsos, one owned by a friend who droppped down to visit our booth.  This year, there were about two dozen of them, along with a good complement of Bullmastiffs, Rottweilers and Dobermans - many of them pups.  We saw Presas, Neapolitans, English Mastiffs, Dogues de Bordeaux.  One guy had a Tibetan Mastiff who wasn't too happy with the heat.  There were quite a few backyard-bred Bernese Mountain dogs - sure, buy a pet shop Bernese and let us know how that works out for you.  Lots and lots of Danes.

There was still a good turnout of DOLA dogs, some muzzled, some not but it was quite startling to see how many people had the big guys this year - and how many were totally unsuited as owners of those types.  There were small people being dragged along by dogs bigger than they were, nervous people transmitting anxiety to their dogs, people using prong collars incorrectly (can we get rid of those things except at training schools?) thereby tormenting their dogs - you name it, we saw it. 

Two mindless bimbos stood in front of our booth - one had a supposed 'pit bull' and the other had some kind of mastiff cross that was probably a Presa mix.  The latter kept referring to her 'pit bull'.  Right.   They were snickering a lot and acting strange.

Anyway, when they arrived, the big, adolescent intact male was wearing a muzzle.  Every time the handler (I had the feeling he wasn't her dog) took it off he lunged at other dogs.  She had the prong collar on incorrectly which wasn't helping but the dog trainer in the booth next to us showed her how to use it properly.

We wondered if it was some kind of setup - by AR, the AG or media, since they loitered in front of our booth for quite awhile and kept talking about 'pit bulls' and deliberately letting the big mutt lunge at other dogs.

You meet all kinds of weirdos at Woofstock, I tell you what.

I guess when people can't get cute, easy to own, longstanding companion dogs such as American Pit Bull terriers, Staffordshire Bull terriers and American Staffordshire terriers, they turn to larger, more imposing dogs to keep up with the coneheads in their neighbourhoods.

There are people who own dogs and there are dog people - and never the twain shall meet.  There's nothing wrong with mastiff breeds, I love them, it's just that they require more experienced owners due to their size and the cost of maintaining them.

As I said in one of my initial letters to Ontario's Attorney General, long before the first draft of the infernal dog ownership ban was made available, when you see what people will turn to if you bring in this misguided legislation, 'pit bulls' will be the good old days.

Man, it's hard to be right when you'd much rather be wrong.