From the comments on one of my Ohio posts:

We have posted a couple of responses to these letters at our blog:

http://pitbullrescuecentral.blogspot.com/

Please feel free to circulate. We need to stop the flow of misinformation.

I'm a little late posting this story from British Columbia, where the typical machinations leading to a 'breed' ban have started in the wake of a bite a few weeks ago by an alleged 'pit bull'.

It sounds as though this guy was being eatern from the ground up, to borrow a colourful phrase from our wacky former Attorney General.  The victim likens the appearance of his leg to a 'pork chop'.

I'm sure the local citizens will be standing on the lawn of the legislature with torches and pitchforks, flooding the local tabloids with letters full of 'facts', demanding the extermination of the 'breed' and trolling their tushies off on the intertube comment boards.

'I became dinner,' says B.C. dog-attack victim

Christopher Sun ,  Canwest News Service

Published: Wednesday, May 28

BURNABY  - The search is on for the owners of two dogs that attacked a man, biting his leg to the bone.

David Scoular also broke a couple of his ribs, twisted his knee and hurt his neck from hopping a one-metre fence in an attempt to flee from the attacking dogs near Burnaby Lake on May 18.

"It looks like a pork chop that opened up," Scoular said, explaining how his leg looked after the attack. "The (Labrador retriever) bit right to the bone and ripped it."

It took three paragraphs to discover the 'breed' of the attacking dog, which is definite progress.  That information is usually buried unless it's a mutt who can be labeled a 'pit bull', no matter how bizarre that designation may be.  In those cases, the shape appears in the headline.

So, how about it, British Columbians?  Are you ready to ban Labrador retrievers?  We'd like a change of pace over here at Banned Aid, things are much too predictable lately.

Surprise us.

As pointed out by Opposition Members of the Provincial Parliament (MPPs) in Ontario, the McGuinty revisions to our outdated Animal Welfare Act are problematic, to say the least.  I posted some notes about it in May.

While checking a few of my favourite blogs today, I read that a very similar type of legislation is being discussed for the Schenectady area of New York State.  In Ontario I don't think the plan is to have SPCA employees carry weapons or use Mace or body armour because we tend to be somewhat less escalated that way compared with the US.  Other than that distinction, both scenarios have the same rancid AR smell about them.

Blue Dog State and Smart Dogs' Weblog have excellent posts about the granting of police powers to civilians employed by a private organization which is not subject to public scrutiny or oversight.

I wonder if this is what they talk about at those H$U$ Expos?  There is certainly a lot of similarity among certain pieces of pet-related legislation that are popping up here and there across the continent lately.

Somehow, I doubt it, unless what we see - a duplicitous, avaricious Lord High Executioner for millions of helpless animals - is the real 'Humane Wayne'.

There's a good post over at Nathan Winograd's blog about Pacelle, his batty aunts at Peta and the travesty that was H$U$ Expo 2008 - held, of course, in Orlando Florida - the home of Disney World.

"According to HSUS as presented in statements, media quotes, and workshops at their conference, dogs and cats can and should be killed in shelters (it is a “necessity” and the “kindest option”); No Kill is hoarding; and cronies come before the animals being needlessly killed.

So we are left to conclude that this is the real Wayne Pacelle, and that this will be his enduring legacy to the millions of animals needlessly being slaughtered in shelters each year. When someone shows you over and over who they really are, what they really believe, and what they stand for, it behooves all of us to believe them."

 

Read the whole thing here.

One of my favourite tell-it-like-it-is bloggers, Luisa, posted a good article about the old '2000 psi' myth.  I'm glad that little 'fact' continues to be debunked.

You should read it.

She's got a lot of good stuff over there including some great updates on the Vick pups - snoop around!

Remember when we were having fun fisking the interview with David Spence and others on Wednesday?

Remember when we said, "not so fast" about the wild premise that two loveable family pets had snapped and turned on their owner, killing her?

KC Dog Blog has some updated information about that case you should read.  And no, we're not sending you back and forth because we're playing a game with our readers :>)

As usual, there's more to this story than has been widely reported.  Most serious attacks and fatal maulings take place under sordid circumstances.  From what KC Dog Blog has discovered, it sounds as though this one was no exception.

KC DogBlog has a great roundup this week.  Lots of items of interest, plus some newer posts about the DDA and a purported 'pit bull' attack in San Jose which turned out to be a different type of dog.  Too bad it was repeated about 50 times as a 'pit bull' attack by our yapping curs in the MSM.

Never fails to make me laugh when some twit says "but look at all the news reports about 'pit bulls' -  there must be a problem with them!"

Yeah, because news reports = factual evidence.  Right.

Anyway, check out the roundup, lots to read there.

KC Dog Blog comments on the Vick sentencing.