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Comments by Ashton816

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Posted on November 15 at 2:41 p.m.

Any breed of dog is capable of biting and/or killing a human. Any animal is for that matter, be it a horse, cat, or bird. You cannot punish a certain breed based on witness breed identification which is, more often than not, inaccurate and statistics which are based on them. What people aren't looking at is the Labrador Retriever bite rate, the toy breed bite rate, and so on. Every time you hear about a dog injuring someone, it is always a breed that has fallen into the 'dangerous dog' category because it's easy to group and blame one breed. But, tell me, what about Pomeranian that killed its family's infant, or the Chihuahua that attacked other dogs and people. Why aren't these breeds banned?
One of the most simple things you can do in order to retrieve legitimate statistic information on breeds is to go to the American Temperament Test Society's website and view the passing and failing rates of every breed that has ever been tested.
If this was happening to a certain race of people, it would be called a genocide: "The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group". People seem to avoid that word with this situation, though. They also avoid the word "racism", but that is exactly what BSL is: "hatred or intolerance of another race or other races". No question about it.
I hope you will take all of this into consideration before you ruin the lives of anymore loving families and throw away the lives of anymore loving pets.

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