tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547600777592832280.post893965894204027956..comments2024-03-27T18:22:28.226-07:00Comments on Animal Uncontrol: Right, privilege, or something else?Animal Uncontrolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353756918671252887noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547600777592832280.post-39724301123598864552013-04-12T16:15:44.787-07:002013-04-12T16:15:44.787-07:00Nature didn't make pit bulls, Man did. I thin...Nature didn't make pit bulls, Man did. I think you need your medication adjusted. I am sorry for your difficulties.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Animal Uncontrol.Animal Uncontrolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01353756918671252887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547600777592832280.post-43055327730392799362013-04-09T13:56:25.968-07:002013-04-09T13:56:25.968-07:00Owning a dog is a privilege. Nature made Pit Bulls...Owning a dog is a privilege. Nature made Pit Bulls peaceful, caring breeds, but man has turned the Pit Bull and many other dogs into ruthless, fighting dogs. However, B.S.L is a responsible owner's nightmare. I had to get mental help because I was on the verge of suicide, I had a note ready and everything. If there is one, there is always others. People love dogs, sometimes like their own child like I loved my late Pit Bull Sasha. When she was basically kidnapped, I had tied a pink ribbon to her ear to support the fighting of breast cancer and to stop B.S.L from going any further, since B.S.L is against my religious beliefs. I'm only 12, but my friend in the 5th grade (she was 10) committed suicide over her Pit Bull. She was my only close friend, the rest of my friends were just classmate friends. People should have dogs. What about the disabled people with service dogs? What if they have a seizure while everybody is asleep and dies because this person didn't have his or her service dog? Having a dog isn't a privilege, nor is it an entitlement. <br /><br />It is a right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547600777592832280.post-28103520640668191192012-05-02T00:55:02.313-07:002012-05-02T00:55:02.313-07:00As far as I can tell, the idea that owning a dog i...As far as I can tell, the idea that owning a dog is some kind of entitlement originated with the pit bull (and other weapon dogs) fashion. Where I live, a dog will be confiscated for nuisance barking, for seriously biting someone, for killing (animal or human) -- unless it's one of these weapon dogs, upon which even the authorities fear being Not Politically Correct. It's scandalous that so-called general animal advocates have participated in this, since it's generating so much hatred towards, as well as so many maimings and mortalities among, normal dogs. To say nothing of weapon-dog slaughtered cats, horses, cattle, sheep and other animals. <br /><br />It's flabbergasting to find again and again that the pit-bull type dog has been granted human rights (taking these away from our very children to give them to these monsters); that the pit bull owner is granted entitlement to his/her consumer article above and beyond our rights to life and liberty (eg, to walk to a bus stop or enter our own back yard without fear of being savaged). It's scandalous that so-called general animal advocates have participated in getting our shelters so flooded with monster dogs that normal dogs are being put down to make space for the monsters -- and not a word of protest from the animal advocates, except on behalf of the killer dogs. <br /><br />It's collective insanity. <br /><br />I do believe that a ruthless crack-down on the weapon dog types would impress all dog owners with the fact that keeping a dog means making sure it fits into the community without ruining anyone else's life, nor interfering with other's rights. <br /><br />Privilege.Sweetie Piehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048713290619160232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547600777592832280.post-15306305955707487192012-05-01T10:09:25.996-07:002012-05-01T10:09:25.996-07:00privilege.privilege.scurrilous amateur bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00575387156203723911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547600777592832280.post-47984670886197048102012-03-21T20:14:15.246-07:002012-03-21T20:14:15.246-07:00Quiet Tasmania (Australia) at http://quietas.net/P...Quiet Tasmania (Australia) at http://quietas.net/Page62.html has long recommended the evaluation of owners for suitability.<br /><br />Here is the text of the article:<br /><br />DOG LAW REFORM<br /><br />TOPIC: Owner Suitability<br /><br />It has always been the case that many dog owners are inadequate for that role, or refuse to accept their responsibilities, or are otherwise unsuited to animal ownership.<br />Should such people receive mandatory training and demonstrate good husbandry to a required<br />standard, or should they be denied the right to keep a dog until they do?<br /><br />The Paper Noxious Barking elaborates further:<br /><br />When there was an abundance of open space where both species could free-range at will there<br />was no trouble from barking because dogs in the wild did not bark. They could freely do what<br />nature intended.<br /><br />With mankind's exponential increase in numbers and because of the tremendous economic and<br />social advantages made available by concentrated suburban living, man has graduated to this totally different abode and adopted an entirely different lifestyle.<br /><br />Despite these profound changes, today's man has not altogether discarded his biological<br />conditioning and evidently still requires his accompanying dogs. He feels uncomfortable without them.<br /><br />But now with so many of his neighbours just a few metres away and not over the next range as<br />before, man has failed to recognise that the everyday environment for his companion animal is<br />now totally different too.<br /><br />Whereas man with his superior intelligence developed the capacity to adapt to radical change, his thoughtless expectation that his companion animal would adapt in parallel has proven unfounded. Dogs remain dogs. These creatures remain the descendants of wolves and their animal nature and instincts are still just under the surface.<br /><br />Man has foolishly tried to anthropomorphise his companion animal into malleable horizontal<br />replicas of himself, but no matter how much he indulges in this delusion the unpalatable fact<br />remains that he has failed. It cannot be done and he never had any right to try. But in his<br />mindless selfishness he persists as if by force of personality he can achieve what nature never<br />intended, and he still tries to dominate and exploit another creature by sheer determined<br />self-will.<br /><br />Thus has developed a suburban environment where half the population recognises that dogs are<br />substantially unsuitable animals for it, while the other half denies the fact and defends its<br />position fiercely.<br /><br />This division between the haves and the have-nots causes enormous trouble, misery and<br />conflict - a battle of wills wherein those who've still not recognised the realities of the totally changed environment have become entrenched in their determination to retain what they perceive to be their inalienable right.<br /><br />Cruelly confining his companion animal to its wholly unsuitable and unnatural backyard plot the owner goes away, oblivious to the torment he so mindlessly inflicts upon his dog every day. This is the main cause of so much suburban barking.<br /><br /><br />Recommended:<br /><br />1. That where an authorised person is of the opinion that an owner is unsuited to the ownership of a particular animal, he may require that owner to demonstrate a suitable standard of animal care in order to continue that ownership of that dog in that location.<br /><br />2. That in the event an owner cannot demonstrate or otherwise convince a council of his suitability for ownership then that dog may be seized and relocated at the owner’s expense.<br /><br />3. That councils be required to record all such events against the owner’s name in its Register<br />of Authorised Owners.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com