Showing 10 posts tagged with "breed specific legislation"
It took a DNA test to prove it, but Angie Cartwright — who lives in a town that bans pit bulls — has certified that her dog Lucey is only 12 percent bully breeds, and now she has her back.
Lucey had never bitten anyone; nor had she ever acted aggressively, according to the Salina Journal in [...]
A World War II veteran who was held for a year in a Nazi prisoner camp has made it his mission to help supply wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with service dogs.
Irwin Stovroff, the subject of a recent Fox News report, has raised nearly $2 million dollars to help train and match up service [...]
The roots of “Beyond the Myth,” an independent documentary about the plight of pit bulls, go back to when Libby Sherrill was a student in graduate school at the University of Tennessee.
What was her senior project is now a nearly-finished product — a documentary that looks at pit bulls and the people who love and defend them.
The [...]
What do the four breeds above have in common — besides getting labeled as vicious from time to time?
All four (Rottweiler, Akita, chow and Staffordshire terrier, aka pit bull) are in my dog Ace, according to yet another DNA test (last one, I promise). The best guess now is that one of Ace’s parents was a Rottweiler, the [...]
The city of Denver, while it has killed 1,667 pit bulls since reinstituting its ban on the breed in 2005 — that’s about one a day — says it can’t say “with certainty” whether the ban is working.
Clearly, though, its doggie death chamber is functioning just fine.
According to a story in yesterday’s Denver Daily News, [...]
