My family’s dog is named Nova. He is happy, loves everyone, playful, always hungry and enjoys running outside with our puppy, Belle. He has floppy ears and licks my cheek when I make a kissy noise. The point is, he is a sweetheart.
Nova is an American pit bull terrier.
To hear that the city of Montreal, had considered banning and authorizing the euthanization of any dogs with a bit of pit bull in them is disturbing. Their classification was not clear either. The description of the dogs that were going to be banned was muscular with a big head. That is it. Many breeds of dogs are classified as muscular and have big heads.
How can they prove that a dog has any pit bull in it if they do not have the pedigree?
The ban also required veterinarians who did not want to euthanize a dog to help find a vet who would. Current owners of pit bulls would have to sterilize the dog, muzzle their animal, embed a microchip under its skin and register them in a special database or euthanize their dog.
Luckily, the ban has been suspended indefinitely by Superior Court Justice Louis Gouin, as of Oct. 5. The fact that the ban reached the level it did makes me sick.
I am a firm believer in environmental causation, the environment the dog lives in effects how it behaves. I do not believe pit bulls were born nasty. I believe the way they are treated by their owners is a direct cause to how they act towards others. It could be any dog. I read a story recently on how a Saint Bernard attacked a woman.
Is Montreal going to try to ban Saint Bernard’s too?
The reasons behind the proposed ban were to “ensure safety of the population” and due to Ontario passing a similar ban in 2005.
According to Global News Canada, “in 2012, the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association estimated that the law had led to over 1,000 dogs and puppies in Ontario having been needlessly put down. Global News Canada also reported that dog bites have gone up about 45 percent since the ban was passed in Ontario.
I hope the United States does not follow our norther neighbors.
When I walk down the street with Nova, I know the stares are not aimed at me. They judge him before they even get to know him and it breaks my heart that some people do not wants to give these dogs a chance.
People do not like being judged prematurely, so why judge a dog?
Pit bulls were once known as a “nanny” breed which meant people would leave their children with them and believed the dog would protect them.
Nowadays with the bad press pit bulls have received, a lot of people do not want them.
The stigma that pit bulls are a bad breed of dogs needs to change. It all starts with proactivity.
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Oh jesus, not the nanny dog myth again. Lady, you are not only dangerously misinformed, you know nothing about Biology and the inbred nature of your mutant canine psychopaths’ proclivity to maim and murder. It’s called genetics. Your loving pit is nothing but a time bomb waiting for the right trigger and is never better than a chainsaw on a leash.
This lady has never heard of dog breeding.
Don’t need to repeat what almost everyone knows about the breeding of the various Pit-bulls.
Pit-bulls make up only about 3% of all dogs but account for about 2/3 of all deaths caused by dogs.
Think about that for a minute and read the accounts of what Pit-bull attacks are like and about how they have even turned on the own family members without warning.