Irresponsible Dog Owner Inc.

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD noWrap width="100%"></TD><TD noWrap>[font=Arial,Helvetica,Sans Serif][/font]</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>[font=Arial,Helvetica,Sans Serif]Irresponsible Dog Owners Inc.
Hello, we're Joe Shmoe and Jane Doe for Irresponsible Dog Owners Inc. and wish to speak to you about our dogs and your breed-specific bylaw for Anytown and district.
We are the people who bred, raised, and trained the dogs who are the cause of all of the breed hysteria here in the beautiful Anytown. We got them because we wanted a "tough" breed to guard our homes and ourselves. We also liked the respect that walking a dog of such a breed would inevitably raise.
We didn't bother with 'choosing the right breed for you' or with buying from the proper source or nonsense like that. We got them from the local guy who breeds his Rottweiler on every heat or the pet shop that had Pit Bull pups for sale. Since we didn't want to go through the fancy-schmancy breeder screening thing, we picked up the first puppy to come along.
We train our dogs to be aggressive and don't socialize them so that they will "guard" our homes. Or we let them run loose around the neighborhood because a dog needs to be free. When children live in the neighborhood, we don't give a thought to whether a two-year-old can understand the sign "Beware of Dog" above where our dog is chained.
Most of us don't believe in spaying or neutering because of many reasons - it makes them get fat or we want to breed great guard dogs or we want the kids to see the miracle of birth. When our bitches come into season, we don't bother with hip or eye tests. The aggressive and unpredictable dog is "a good guard" and is bred anyway. The puppies are sold to people who have money. Or to family members and friends whether or not they have experience and the right kind of lifestyle for a dog of this strength and temperament.
If our dog bites you or attacks your dog or child, at the most you may get profuse apologies and a promise to keep the dog locked up in future. At the worst, the injuries you and yours have sustained are "your fault" because you ran by the dog or passed too close to his yard or "she just doesn't like [put dislike here]". We often refuse to even assist with damages even if our dog was the aggressor.
If you get breed banning in effect in your town, we don't care. We'll keep our dogs and walk them at night or in broad daylight if we want to make an impression. We won't get licences (if we ever did) if the cost goes up for 'undesirable' breeds. In order to preserve secrecy, we won't even get our dog's shots done (again, if we ever did). But we'll continue to breed our dogs and sell puppies to other know-nothings like ourselves. And, if worse comes to worse, we'll switch to another breed to use for a "guard" dog, a "tough" dog, or a "macho" dog. We don't care.
There are a lot of "tough" breeds out there and more coming into the country or being created each year.
Breed laws don't affect us because we seldom pay attention to them. We'll go our own way and to hell with anybody else. Your laws just won't work! Even if we're convicted of animal cruelty or keeping a 'vicious' breed, we'll be out of jail or have the fine paid in a matter of months and will continue to keep our dogs to harass and terrify our neighbors. There's no stopping us, the way you're going.
But we'd like to thank you. Because of you, the responsible owners of the American Pit Bull Terrier, the Rottweiler, and a host of other so-called "vicious" breeds have been severely restricted from improving the lives of the dogs we own and breed. They would have had you impose limits on pet shops that are supplied by puppy mills and laws that attempt to control us and limit our power to use and abuse our dogs.
They also would have promoted responsible breeding, raising, and training of the breeds we have right now. But, thanks to you, they are so busy trying to fight your breed law that they tend not to move so actively against us. They are the only people that are really affected by these laws because they are the people who actually care about their dogs and their breed(s) because they are the people who buy licences, take their dogs to sporting events, train and socialize them in Anytown. Or at least they did. Thank you again.
In closing, we'd just like to say: Watch out for us. We live beside you, behind you, on your street. We can wear anything from dirty jeans to three-piece suits and have incomes ranging from welfare to the six-figure bracket. And don't judge us by the dog on our leashes. We can make any dog into a vicious killer. We can do it with a Pit Bull, we can do it with a Rottweiler, we can do it with a Golden Retriever. Our dogs tend to be the "macho" type, but there are always a few of us who like to create a big surprise for people. And we don't care about our dogs, our responsibility to them, the future of our breed, you, your pets, or your children.
Don't watch out for our dogs; watch out for us. Because we're the most dangerous breed ever to walk the streets of Anytown.
Author Julie MacArthur
DLCC NOTE**This is a fictional story designed to show just how Breed Specific Legislation does NOT stop the problem of irresponsible owners**

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Hehe. I like that, too. Good stuff.

 

that was deep, i like that one

 

very informative good post!