Ontario, Canada: Ontario pit bull ban isn't working, Humane Society says

Ontario, Canada: Ontario pit bull ban isn’t working, Humane Society says

Ontario, Canada: Ontario pit bull ban isn’t working, Humane Society says
Posted on April 28, 2010 by Stop BSL

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Ontario pit bull ban isn’t working, Humane Society says

By IAN ROBERTSON, Toronto Sun
Last Updated: April 28, 2010 12:20pm

The provincial government bit off more than it could chew by dooming pit bulls as Ontario’s worst people-biters, the Toronto Humane Society says.

Results of a survey of municipalities, released Wednesday, show no significant drop in dog bite cases since the government passed Breed Specific Legislation in 2005 that resulted in “countless” pit bulls and related Staffordshire Terriers being destroyed.

In a statement, the THS called on the provincial government to amend its Breed Specific Legislation and ” stop the punishment of innocent animals.

“This survey shows that the pit bull ban has not resulted in a reduction in the number of dog bites in Ontario,” said the THS, which opposes breed-specific legislation.

A chart based on its statistics shows about a 10% drop in dog bite cases from 2004 to 2005, to just over 5,000. The survey showed a slight drop again in 2006, then the number of cases increased to about to about the 2005 level by last year.

In the THS release, spokesman Ian McConachie quoted then-Attorney General Michael Bryant telling MPPs in the Legislature “it’s time that we make amendments to the Dog Owners’ Liability Act that make our streets safer.”

The revised legislation outlawing pit bulls “failed to do so,” he charged. McConachie said outlawing specific dog breeds “targets the wrong source of the problem.

“Dogs are not born violent,” McConachie said. Instead, they are “made that way by irresponsible owners who train them to be that way or neglect them and they develop behavioural problems.

“If we want to reduce the number of dog bites we have to address the route cause of the problem, those irresponsible owners who do not appropriately care for their animals.” he said.

He said the survey shows the five-year-old anti-pit bull legislation “has not worked to decrease the incidents of dog bites.”




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Re: Ontario, Canada: Ontario pit bull ban isn’t working, Humane Society says

Love it...finally the press I wanted to see!

 

Re: Ontario, Canada: Ontario pit bull ban isn’t working, Humane Society says

First off, thanks stopbsl for your hard work alerting this forum of what is going on. Second this could be helpful for all the towns, counties and such that bsl legistlation is being considered or already in effect (Denver, Hinds county MS, Eupora MS and so on). The problem is not the breed of dog, but idiot, ignorant owners. Keep up the good work my friend.

 

Re: Ontario, Canada: Ontario pit bull ban isn’t working, Humane Society says

Thanks this is making me all fuzzy inside

 

Re: Ontario, Canada: Ontario pit bull ban isn’t working, Humane Society says

i'm deff liking the sound of this..finally the idiots are comin' to their senses. good lookin out Stopbsl

 

Re: Ontario, Canada: Ontario pit bull ban isn’t working, Humane Society says

I'm hoping the citizens of Ontario show a little sense and vote Dolten McGuilty out of office next year.

To many innocent people and dogs have suffered due to this "PC" legislation.

People are giving up their dogs because they don't understand the law. The OSPCA et al are taking advantage of that ignorance and scaring people into illegal seizures. IE no charges if you surrender you dog!

People of Ontario, they are required, by law, to have a WARRANT to take your dog unless there are illegal ( not grandfathered) dogs in public, or there are Exigent circumstances on your property.

Exigent circumstances are....

Circumstances where the peace officer has REASONABLE grounds to suspect that entry into ANY building, receptacle or place, including a dwelling house, is NECESSARY to prevent IMMINENT bodily harm or death to any person or domestic animal.

Write to your MPP and ask them to, on your behalf, support Cheri DiNovo's Bill to repeal the "Pit Bull" part of DOLA.

Those who stand by and do nothing obviously have nothing to lose.

Dry Creek!

 

Re: Ontario, Canada: Ontario pit bull ban isn’t working, Humane Society says

The irrational attack against the Pit by Michael Bryant and his pit bull legislation must be seen as the irrational contrivances of someone trying to get a foot up in politics by making a name for himself as the protector of the little citizen. A great vote-getter to the ignorant, easily scared citizens. The get the hard job done attitude can only be out done by his get the hard job done by racing off with someone hanging onto his vehicle, whom after hitting several stationary objects subsequently died, because it was the way to get out of an argument that, purportedly, was sensed to be escalating into a physical confrontation by the gas pedal-flooring Bryant.

BAD DOG! BAD OWNER!

 

Re: Ontario, Canada: Ontario pit bull ban isn’t working, Humane Society says

Human deaths in Ontario caused by a American Staffordshire Terrier-ONE.

Human deaths in Ontario caused by Michael Bryant-ONE.

Any one else recognize the irony?

This is the same man who could NOT point out a "PIT BULL" in a collection of dog pictures. :rolleyes:

http://bryantwatch.wordpress.com/

 

Re: Ontario, Canada: Ontario pit bull ban isn’t working, Humane Society says

How can it work if it is ok to have an exotic pet tiger but the pit bulls are marked vicious...
Glad the press is out, hopefully we can use that example to fight proposed BSL in Garfield, NJ.
Thank you for the article