Pit bull restrictions

with respect, i disagree. it just keeps those that shouldn't have guns from telling anybody about it. The restrictions on pit bulls will do the same thing. The responsible owners will register the dog and build the pen and then the same dope that shouldn't own one now will let his loose again to cause trouble. It will just be one more unenforceable law on the slippery slope that leads to them being banned altogether, or one more excuse to let animal control on your place without a warrant because they saw a dog that might be a pit. If we have to register before owning a pit, how long before we have to register before breeding a pit? Before we have to mark or chip our dogs and transfer ownership like you have to do with a car? Before somebody tells us how many litters we can or cannot breed a year? Before there is a mandatory spay/nueter law for pits? Before a law that tells us how many we can own? An American Bulldog looks a lot like a pit, they might include them too. Rotweilers and Dobermans have been on the chopping block for a while now as well.

No thank you on the restrictions. It's just a foot in the door for an eventual ban or enough restrictive laws that it's not worth owning one anymore, which is what they want. What I am in favor of is enforcing existing laws, and imposing penalties on owners that let ther dogs run loose to bite people as long as they are not vaguely written. As far as I'm concerned, if I break into your house, or shed or yard or whatever and your dog bites me then I deserved to be bitten and your dog was just doing his job. If I'm in a public park and sombody's loose dog bites me then it's their fault, especially if the dog had a history of biting.

I do agree though that owning a pit, or any large breed dog carries with it more responsibility than owning a toy breed.