Around and around we go!

 After 20+ years of ENDLESSLY playing the breed ID game, haven’t we had enough?  Great article on Dogsbite.org the other day.  I left some comments.

The gist of it is, dog nuts in the UK have found several creative ways to side-step / cheat on the breed restrictions there.  The UK dangerous dogs act of 1991 banned the following 4 breeds:  Dogo Argentino, Fila Brasileiro, Pit Bull Terrier and Japanese Tosa.   Lets pause for a moment:  Is the Japanese Tosa a popular dog breed anywhere?  Who knew. 

In any case, UK dog nuts and power breed fanatics have been cross-breeding, designer breeding, and discovering various other ways to side step this restriction.  This is in addition to the fact that you can still own pit bulls in the UK if certain conditions are met.  Thank dog for that! 

This illustrates one problem with trying to limit or restrict a couple dog breeds:   Dog nuts will figure out a way to mix their breed of choice *just enough* to side step the ban, adopt a power dog not on the list (i.e. Presa Canario), or just go ahead and create a new breed.  Think about it:  A dog breed is essentially just a consumer product line.  The producers can create new lines all they want.   How many brands of underarm deodorant could we have?  Think about that. 

Note the operative words above include “one problem”.  Another problem is enforcement.  As long as the policy is to give Fido a pass on everything, enforcement is going to be very lax. 

Many times over the past 10 years I have made the point that allowing large (40+ lb) dogs in cities and residential areas is grossly unreasonable.   How do you justify that when EVERY other animal in these areas is either limited to small pets (reptiles, cats, etc… ) or zoned out entirely (goats, sheep, horses, etc…).   If anything, you would restrict large dogs in cities as an animal welfare measure. 

To those who remark about their Great Dane, St. Bernard, etc…. “My Fido is super sweet!  He’d never harm a fly!”.   Yes, precisely the same words uttered by every Pit Bull fanatic in existence.  Do you even hear yourselves?   Let me ask you something:  Could you stop your dog from assaulting someone?  If Fido knocks someone over, that could injure them pretty badly.  Are you willing to take responsibility for that?   How about if I push YOU over onto the concrete?   How about this:  Is keeping a bunch of St. Bernards in a 400 square foot downtown apartment a good idea?

So, with all that said, here is my proposition:  Lets limit ALL pets in cities and residential areas to 35 lbs or less.  "Limit" meaning that you would need a variance to exceed the threshold.  THIS puts an END to all of these endless rounds of breed ID Bull Shit!   And while we are at it, lets de-normalize assault-by-dog.  

The trouble with Pibbles

Pitbulls.   Pitbulls, everywhere!   The other day, my ring cam chimes.  I go to the door (should have checked the video first), and what do I see?   An at-large pitbull, what else would it have been?   He charges when I open the door, so I slam the door in his face.   Fido may have only been selling girl-scout cookies, maybe not.  Best to err on the side of caution.

The proliferation of pit bulls is just astounding.  It seems that, everywhere I go I see pitbulls.  Many of my neighbors now have them.  Its very common to see someone walking one or more pitbulls whenever driving in or out of here.  The other day I saw a woman walking her 2 pitbulls:  She is totally detached, focus entirely on her smartphone, holding the leashes loosely.   I was hiking a state park yesterday and saw multiple pitbulls, one of them off leash (who growled at me).

I have a hypothesis that may explain this mass proliferation of pitbulls.  I now hold the belief that pitbulls reproduce similar to single celled organisms, not mammals.   Each pitbull undergoes a mitosis every 24 hours or so.   By that I mean that each pitbull divides in half, creating 2 pitbulls in its place.  The exponential growth of the pitbull population can't be explained in any other way.  

The below meme sums up what I am contemplating here:

Coming to a neighborhood near YOU!

Have a great Sunday!

 

The PitBull Laureate

 

The PitBull Laureate:

I am back for real, not fiction,

I’ll cure YOU of your air addiction!

 

Your self defense efforts a fail,

Hurt me, You’ll spend your life in jail!

 

I will most certainly get a pass,

When I bite a chunk out of your ass!

 

I will invade your space,

And make a meal of your face! 

From your screaming, please refrain,

As I crack open your skull, suck out your brain!

 

Some folks say, BSL the Answer,

I say, I’ll kill more men than cancer!

 

So, Get down on your knees, you putz,

You serve no purpose but to worship MUTTS!

P.S.  Mick is dead ❤

A Total Dog Solution

Dog cultists are now suffering under the “Total Dog Solution” that they themselves have created.   They want to blame “Pit Nutters”, but the regime they created has now gone insane and is consuming its own.   Ready to take responsibility, yet? 

One of the leading causes of death in the 20^th century was “Democide”, i.e. a government exterminating its own people.   Good examples of this are Hitler’s Germany and Pol Pot’s Cambodia.  Communism and Nazism are good examples of a “Total State Solution” where everything is run by and for the government, and that government and its agents can have no restraint placed on its behavior whatsoever.  An explosion of death and violence are the inevitable result of such a regime. 

Dog worshipers have created a policy environment where dogs and dog owners must never have any restraint place upon them, whatsoever.  Everything Fido does, by definition, is absolutely good and just because Fido did it.  Period, end of conversation.  They have successfully implemented The Total Dog Solution. 

Pit Nutters are the equivalent of the Black SS or the Khmer Rouge, projecting violence and intimidation against everyone in the name of the almighty Dog.   Remember, they are dog owners, too and can’t be restrained in any way.  Anything done in the name of Dog is by definition great and wonderful.  They are the true enforcers of the Total Dog Solution. 

Some argue if we get rid of pit bulls, we can go back to normal.  Nice try, but won’t work as something resembling the pit bull apocalypse is the INEVITABLE outcome of the Total Dog Solution.  As long as dogs and their owners are placed above the rules of good behavior, the problem will not only continue but will get worse.   Pit Nuttery is merely a symptom of the Total Dog Solution. 

Pursuant to the above, one common outcome of a “Total State Solution” is the liquidation of “useful idiots”:  Essentially, morons that promote the revolution and are subsequently eliminated when they are no longer useful.   Lovers of non-pit dogs are the “useful idiots” in the Total Dog Solution scenario:  You and Fluffy got shredded by Pits because the worst among you no longer have a use for you.

Have a great evening!

 

Double Trouble or "Here we go again!!!"

I awoke from my long slumber to find my neighborhood terrorized by 2 at large pit-type dogs.  Given the current social, political and legal climate such a thing was bound to happen sooner or later.

Here are the photos, courtesy of one of my "game-cams":

Consider the butt-ugly mutant on the left.  It should be illegal to even house something that hideous, much less turn it loose in the neighborhood.  The low-quality game cam shot does not do it justice.... this dog is U.G.L.Y!

In any case, they ripped the lid off my trash can (Which had been secured with multiple bungee cords), and spread trash all over my yard.  Thanks, doggers!

A couple of days later, I learned from another neighbor that these two had killed a cat in her front yard.  The cat was literally ripped to shreds.   She told me she "never wanted to see anything that horrible again".   Long story short, the entire neighborhood is on alert, and everyone is now carrying weapons.  County AC has been to the owner's home multiple times (They have received at least 4 complaints over 2 weeks that I know about), yet we still observe the dogs running loose!   I'm not absolutely sure who owns them, but my nextdoor neighbor thinks they belong to a party that closed on a home about a month ago.

I think I need to pay these folks a visit.  I wonder what would be a good way to welcome them to the neighborhood?

1)  Pass along a hard copy of the "Best use for a dead pit bull" article?
2)  Delivery of a restraining order?
3)  "No, I haven't seen your dogs, but try some of these really tasty meatballs I made this morning"?

Happy holidays, everyone!

Null Hypothesis

Convinced that there is no causal relationship between 2 events?  Firm believer in "innocent until proven guilty"?  That is the Null Hypothesis. 

The Null Hypothesis makes sense when applied... well, sensibly.  While correlation is a necessary prerequisite for causation, correlation does not necessarily indicate causation.

From Wiki:

For any two correlated events, A and B, the different possible relationships include:

• A causes B (direct causation);
• B causes A (reverse causation);
• A and B are consequences of a common cause, but do not cause each other;
• A and B both causes C, which is (explicitly or implicitly) conditioned on.;
• A causes B and B causes A (bidirectional or cyclic causation);
• A causes C which causes B (indirect causation);
• There is no connection between A and B; the correlation is a coincidence.

The last bullet item would indicate a Null Hypothesis:  No causal relationship.

Moving along...

'Twas another pit bull mauling in OK a few days ago.  An elderly woman walking her dog was killed by 2 at-large pit bulls.  Her head was nearly removed from her body. 

Of course, those coming to the defense of those dogs, and those like them, insist that the breed background of the mutt perpetrators had nothing to do with it.  Indeed, it was just something that happened.  Like having it rain on your birthday.   The fact that the dogs involved had the capacity to decapitate somebody was merely a coincidence.   Hey, she could had her head cut off by a goldfish, right?

Remember, according to dog worshippers and pit bull fanatics, the facts that pit bulls were bred to fight, and have the overall physical capacity to take down a grown man have nothing to do with any of this carnage.  To them, horrific events of this sort are strictly a coincidence.  Remember, its not pit bulls that kill, or even dogs.  Hell its not even mammals, or anything alive!   The victim in question could have died of anything, and the fact that this death involved game bred fight dogs with a bite strength of an industrial hydraulic press was strictly a coincidence.  The physical capacity and breed history of pit bulls to fight to the death is not implicated in any way, ever.  This is the Null Hypothesis of almost every dog mauling.   

Dog apologists and pit bull fanatics always try to act and sound smart.  I consider most of them to be a "95 IQ genius'" at best.  If you are on a forum and need a retort, try this: "You are abusing the Null Hypothesis".   I dunno if that IS smart, but it sure SOUNDS smart, doesn't it?

Have a great week!

What time is it?

Happy New Year, all!

2015 was a GREAT year for Fido.  A pit bull kills another in Miami... where they are banned!  Indeed, the city is giving away banned pit bulls!  How much better can it get?

On a related note, we now have the first "suicide by dog" in history!   "O cruel world!  I must depart this mortal coil!  I must ignore all those nasty knives, firearms, pills, large bodies of water and tall buildings!  I will end my live by.... diving into a backyard full of pit bulls(?)"  Maybe its just me, but this seems a little far fetched to me.   Perhaps the "official" outcome was, ahem, "influenced" by the fact that a local cop owned the property in question?   This is shaping up to be a major scandal.

And, of course, we have the 9 year old boy living in a small travel trailer killed by his sister's 3 pit bulls.  Again, (and again, and again...) a pack of large dogs in a small camper is SUCH a good idea, isn't it?   The sister may go to jail, and yadda, yadda, yadda... but nothing ever really changes, now does it?

Happy 2016 folks!

[EDIT]  Here is a video of Griffin-Heady's pit bulls.  You know, the dogs that killed her brother?  Get it while the getting is good... probably won't be on youtube for long:

BSL Collapse 3.1 - Why, indeed?

Commenter Dog People Are Nuts (DPAN) made a great comment the other day.  It was in response to this comment on the last page:

Maybe they aren't 'real dogs' though. If pit bulls are successfully banned, it will be easier to ban the next mauler.

Divide and conquer ;)

DPAN's response to that was [with my comments in bold]:

It's not tackling the root of the problem. Why have pitbulls been allowed to even get this out of control? Because they are dogs. Would mutant cats or budgies have been allowed to kill over 20 people per year with impunity? [in a word...NOPE] Hell no; a single death would cause a massive outcry and the breed would be outlawed and forced into extinction.

If BSL is passed, don't expect it to be enforced. Pits are banned where I live [where is that] and I see them all the time (and yes, I've reported them when I know where they live). Why? Because if no one has the guts to enforce even the most basic dog laws, no one would be meeean enough to deprive someone of their BEST FRIEND doggie woggie and then have it put down just because it's the wrong breed, which it can't help! Aww, look, it's wagging its tail!  [This sums the core issue to perfection]

Some of these bans wouldn't be necessary if the dog laws that already existed were sufficiently enforced: Leash laws, containment laws, laws pertaining to declared dangerous dogs (eg. muzzling), breeding laws, licensing laws, number if permitted pets laws, bans on individuals from having dogs/pets. If these aren't enforced, why would BSL?  [because the laws of DOG are above those of MAN]

The above addresses the core issue:  We are expected to worship each and every dog, and to put Dog's interests above all other.  Indeed, WHY would BSL restrictions be considered by us mere mortal humans?

I live in the U.S. State of Florida.  Florida has "pre-emption" laws, thereby prohibiting local entities from imposing ANY sort of breed specific legislation.  As much as I love Florida, I consider this complete BS.

Certain cities were allowed to "grandfather in" their pre-existing BSL restrictions.  This includes the city of Miami and a few other places.   

Now, Miami has been host to TWO DBRF's within about a year of each other:

Devon Jade killed by Pit Bulls.   Consider:  Pit bulls are not allowed in Miami-Dade County.  And, this:  Yep, look like full-blown SHIT BULLS to me!

Carmen Reigata killed by dogs (pit "mixes"  wink, wink).

Lets crunch some numbers:

- Miami / Dade USA:  5.5 million population.
- United States:   322 million population.

DBRF's in Miami - 1 per year the past 2 years.
DBRF's in USA - 42 per year, as per 2014 statistics.

So, statistically:

You have a 1 in 5.5 million chance of being killed by a dog in Miami.

You have a 1 in 7.6 million chance of being killed by a dog in the greater USA.

From that we can determine that, currently, Miami people have an above average probability of being killed by a dog than your average American.   This is in spite of Miami's Pit Bull ban!

See how easy it is to play with numbers?   I can set the goalposts anywhere I want.  I can "prove" that pit bulls kill less than 1 person every 5 years if I go back to, say, 5000 BC!   In any case, statistically, I just destroyed Miami's pit bull restriction even though I find it perfectly legitimate.

In any case, as DPAN pointed out, BSL will wash out in the face of the overall dog culture.  The key to a pit bull (or any sort of doggie restriction) is to FIRST undermine the canine supremacy movement.  When that is done, THEN and only THEN will the BSL restriction take hold.

Have a great weekend!
  

BSL Collapse 3.0 - Pit Bulls are Gods.

Another in this series.   What is wrong with the BSL movement?   Well, #3 on the list is "You refuse to acknowledge the connection to the greater dog culture.  Look, pit bulls are dogs and thus under the protection of The 10 Commandments.  What are you going to do about THAT?"

During the height of the Mickey debacle, a few posters made the observation that many Mick supporters had a FaceBook page featuring some toy dog, or even (the horror!) A CAT.

Forget about Per Se pit bull support.  Why do toy dog owners, cat owners, and even petless people support MICKEY?

Mick received massive support across all segments of the population because MICK is a DOG.  It is THAT simple.  Thanks to a 80 year social engineering project by dog lovers, it is now politically incorrect to critique ANY dog for ANY reason!  It doesn't really matter if its ALL dogs, a SUB-SET of dogs (i.e. pit bulls) or an individual dog (i.e. Mickey, Goose, Gus, etc... etc... etc...).


Always remember Commandment #5: 

Thou shalt offer no unkind words against Dog, nor shalt thou lift a finger against Dog for any reason.

It is now a basic social value* that we love each and every dog unconditionally.  Since it is a given that the dog's behavior does not matter, how can the dog's parentage matter?  If we cannot blame a dog and/or the owner for what it ACTUALLY DID DO, how can we blame it for what it might do?

[*A basic social value is something that EVERYONE is expected to adhere to.  Examples would be:  Finish school, get a job and always wear clean underwear.]

Therefore, when you push for a pit bull ban you are speaking the unspeakable.  You are shoveling against the proverbial tide of Dog Culture.  The statistics you put forth are nothing but noise:  Is not Fido the arbiter of every outcome?  Is not the victim always to blame?   Are not the interests of Dog always the overriding consideration?  Who cares how many lives are taken by Dog when those lives do not matter, and indeed are Dog's to take?

If you want to get traction on BSL, you must first undermine the dog culture.  You must destroy the notion of Dog's overriding superiority.   BSL becomes a no brainer upon realization that Dog is NOT a sacred animal NOR is Dog a person.  Indeed, Dog has no more right to occupy our spaces than anything else with more than 2 legs.  Dog exists to serve us, NOT the other way around.  When the rights of a person and the interests of Dog intersect, Dog loses. 

BSL Collapse 2.0 - the company you keep

Why did I not support The Pit Bull Awareness symposium held on October 24th?

Simple:  They aligned themselves with the radical, criminal group PETA.   The pit bull victim folks shot themselves in BOTH feet with that major, hump-the-bunk, boner.

PETA fails in every way on every level.

First, the entire concept of animal "rights" is a criminal ideology that directly led to the entire "Mick the Mauler" train wreck.  YOU animal rights punks own that disaster lock, stock and barrel!  Mick would have been put down but for the pervasive attitude, that YOU promote, that demands that DOGS have full constitutional protections!

OH, and on that note... guess what?   PADI the ear-eater's lawyer is now claiming protection under Florida's "stand your ground" laws.   Essentially, a DOG has an unconditional right to defend itself against a FOUR YEAR OLD.   Thanks, you bottom feeding, scum-sucking, miserable excuses for life.  Anyone with any ethics or sense of decency would despise each and every one of you with every particle of their being.

Second, while the entire mission of PETA is complete bullshit, they take it one step further by promoting this criminal ideology with various crimes and intimidation tactics..

Check this out:  PETA's "skinned" alive propaganda video was STAGED.  The vile, disgusting PETA miscreants ADMIT it themselves, so don't even try to argue it!   Indeed, this animal "rights" organization is FINE with torturing animals to death if it promotes their sick, twisted, disgusting, foul organization.  Great job, guys! 

You like owning pets?  PETA wants to ban the owning of pets.

You like eating meat, wearing leather or using ANY animal products in ANY way?  PETA wants to ban THOSE, too.

So, yeah, git home from your PETA meeting and feed your cats a can full of dead animals, you scum sucking hypocrites!  I fervently hope that MICKEY eats your face off.  Kiss my ass you pieces of shit!

EDIT:  Read this to learn more about PETA.

“I don’t believe that people have the right to life,” Newkirk has said. “That’s a supremacist perversion. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”

STILL think that PETA endorsement helps you out?  If humans have no right to life, who cares how many are killed by pit bulls?   Indeed, human lives do not matter.

BSL collapse V1.0

Happy almost lucky Friday!  Been on the road without a lot of time to blog.

As a follow up to this article, I'll delve deeper into some of the reasons the BSL movement is a mess.  This critique is not to slam them, but to make the movement better.   The truth hurts, you know.

Reason #1:  1)  The movement is DOGmatic and unflexible.  Most of you will not consider any reforms other than a ban.   You ignore all statistics that might indicate that a ban does NOT improve public safety.

Indeed, focusing entirely on the means is a fail on several levels.   Particular to this critique, it has lousy "optics".   Consider this comment from the Ethics website:

I think this is yet another case of people wanting to duck individual responsibility. It is easier to ban ‘scary’ dogs than require that dog owners be responsible for their animals. The same people who want all pit bulls banned are the same ones that would protest if a single mother was fined and jailed because her dog attacked someone. 

Ding!  Ding!  Ding!  Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a WINNER!

See, first you ban the BEHAVIOR then you ban the means.  It is the anti-social, destructive behavior that you want to prevent.  When a pack of dogs kills a jogger the attitude should be "that should not have happened" not necessarily "should those be legal to own?".

Lets look at it this way:  If I were to say "random murders are completely legitimate, so lets restrict high-capacity pistol magazines" the rational response to that statement would be "Did your parents have any kids that lived?".    If you are fine with murder, who cares about the means?   If the act is legitimate, then it must follow that the means are legitimate.

When you focus entirely on the means, this transmits the following messages to the larger audience:

1)  You are a fool with no integrity, or
2)  You are a criminal looking to excuse their own bad behavior.

Here are a few other insipid excuses the dumber BSL folks use to bolster their position:

After-the-fact accountability does not undo the harm.   This is true, but does not matter.  This is worse than a lie, it is a deception.   Lets do a Reductio Ad Absurdum on this:   I could argue that BSL is a waste of time because it will not resurrect anyone killed by Pit Bulls.  So, why bother?  Its not going to bring Roy McSweeney or Klonda Richey back to life, now is it?

So, you are doing this on an individual level:  You are saying that killing known maulers and jailing their owners is a waste of resources because it will not undo their heinous acts.   Again, this is true but is a total deception.   Roy McSweeney's murderers had been terrorizing that neighborhood for years, sending 2 other individuals to the hospital on 2 separate occasions - the outcome was totally avoidable.

Now, those willing to debate me on the above, please answer me the following:  If Blich's pit bulls had been killed and Blich thrown in jail after the FIRST attack, I am keen to know how a couple of dead pit bulls with an incarcerated owner would move on to kill Roy McSweeney in his backyard?  Is this "The Walking Dead - Canine Edition"?

See, intolerance of canine aggression prevents the dogs AND the owners from pursuing further mayhem.   Think about that for a while.

Bans are cheaper.    This is probably true, but is again a deception.   Who do you think you are, Milton Friedman or some shit?   This argument goes someplace you do NOT want it to go.

Let me ask this, what is the "economy" of criminally litigating folks that kill dogs that are tormenting them?   I'm sure you'd be fine with a pack of dogs terrorizing the neighborhood - going after them would not be cost effective, in your phony Austrian Economic way of pseudo-thinking.

However, when someone offends against the Almighty Dog, all of a sudden economics do not matter.  If someone were to shoot one of that roving pack, you would want no expense spared to reign in the horrible monster that committed the heinous act!   Call NASA and the Air Force!  Increase the debt ceiling another trillion!

Here is a clue:   Economics do not mesh well with health and safety issues.   We crush offenders because their behavior is intolerable, NOT because its somehow economically useful.  What are the economics of going after child molesters?   Think about that.

Face it, I could end every doggy problem in my neighborhood and it would be WELL within my household budget.  Again, this argument goes somewhere you do NOT want it to go, so I advise that you drop it.

One last thing.  Tom McCartney - if you are reading this or if you know him - KNOCK IT THE HELL OFF!   You are a flood troll of the lowest caliber and you are NOT doing your movement any good.   Dude, work on the netiquette, hmmmmKay?

Happy Lucky Friday!

BSL collapse V0.0

There was a rather brutal takedown of Dogsbite.org the other day.  Here is a link to that article.

Here is a visual to go with the article under consideration:

 

While I take many issues with the BSL movement, I find this "takedown" unfair.  Colleen as a Nazi... Really?  Go for the Godwin Fail much?   Look, you can take anything or anyone and do a Reductio Ad Hitlerum on it, but that does not necessarily make any sense.  Hitler sat in chairs, so anyone who ever sat in a chair must be a Nazi, correct?   Hitler slept in a bed, so all of you bed sleepers must belong to an evil Gestapo, and oven babies day and night!  Mick Heil!

That said, the BSL movement does deserve some critique.  A constructive critique.  As I have noted many times, BSL is a perfectly legitimate arrangement.  Pre-emption laws are stupid and hypocritical.  Look, if I can't own chickens or goats, why the HELL do my neighbors get to keep a backyard full of 150 pound game bred fight dogs?  OH, that would be because they are DOGS and everyone has to kiss their ass day and night.  

So, what is wrong with the BSL movement?  Quite frankly, your movement is a mess.  The 2 cent version is, it lacks integrity.  I say this generally and not categorically.  Personally, I think that Colleen is the very best that the BSL movement has to offer.

I am going to write a series of articles on this, but leave off with a discussion document for now.  

SO, how is the BSL movement a mess?  Here is the short list of reasons.  Longer explanations to follow.

1)  The movement is DOGmatic and unflexible.  Most of you will not consider any reforms other than a ban.   You ignore all statistics that might indicate that a ban does NOT improve public safety.

2)  You ally yourselves with PETA and other radical groups.  Great way to alienate the 99% of the population that is not completely crazy.  For starters, the Pit Bulls Awareness Day symposium on October 24 has aligned itself with PETA.  Why not grab an endorsement from ISIS while you are at it?

3)  You refuse to acknowledge the connection to the greater dog culture.  Look, pit bulls are dogs and thus under the protection of The 10 Commandments.  What are you going to do about THAT?

4)  You conflate the means with the end.   The GOAL should be enhanced public health and safety.  Instead, it seems that a pit bull ban has become an end onto itself.  ALL dog bites are serious, folks!

5)  Focus entirely on a handful of spectacular events, while ignoring or excusing away the overall social harm related to dogs.  Being mauled to death has lottery odds.  You want to know what the NUMBER ONE page on this site is?   This one.   Barking is a scourge that destroys the health and quality of life of millions.  Nary a peep from the BSL folks... how about we ban the top 5 barkers by breed?  What do you think of that?

Enjoy your evening and feel free to comment.  I will follow up with articles on all 5 above.

 

The next step down

Dog fanatics have been VERY successful in protecting the interests of dangerous dogs and their owners.  They have effectively neutered ANY intervention by authorities.

Barking laws?   Place the burden on the victim!
Biting laws?  Refer to barking laws!
BSL?  In the past year or so, we have had TWO DBRF's in Miami where PIT BULLS ARE BANNED!  Skeptical?  Consider this and this.

Consider that law is downstream from culture.   Our culture demands that the interests of dogs and dog owners is the overriding priority in all situations.  Fido's interests take precedence over all governing laws as well as the rights, interests and needs of any animal in his vicinity (and that includes us 2 legged "animals").   As long as the culture is completely dog-centric, our laws and law enforcement will be as well.

So, law enforcement is completely owned by dogger interests.  Is there any remaining territory for them to conquer?

Political agitators being what they are, they are working on the last bastion of defense that we have.  Self defense.

Consider this from the Watch Mickey Beat Cancer Page:

I wonder what their definition of "cruelty" is?   The mother beating a pit bull to get it to let go of her 2 year old child.  YUP!   Again, read the FaceBook page and consider the benefactors.  These folks think it is completely legitimate for a dog to rip the face off a toddler at the slightest provocation.  These miscreants do not care about any "cruelty" or "abuse" aimed at anything else.  This is a Pit Bull Protection Symposium and nothing else.

Just DIE already!

Update on the Watch Mickey Beat Cancer page!

Update on Mickey!!!

We have been informed that Mickey's tumor was a malignant melanoma. That is the bad news.
The good news, is that the tumor was mostly benign. The means that the tumor was caught very early on, and they got it all with the surgery.

This is going to continue to happen to Mickey. Tumors are going to pop up, and they are going to be removed. This is exactly why Mickey was allowed to be moved by the Court to his new facility.

Mickey himself is doing great! Happy and playful as ever. Though he is getting a little tired of having to wear a shirt all the time to cover up his incision.

Hopefully, we will have some new pictures later this week when John goes to see Mickey.

UGH!   This is #8 to the maximum.   Why not just turn The Mickster over to a sushi chef?   He's been carved up more than a Thanksgiving Turkey in Ethiopia.

Dog worshipers are the ultimate sadists.  They are keeping the beast alive for no reason other than to promote maulers and feed their own twisted egos!

Here is how it works:   Throw the Mick Proletariat a bone every once in a while, meanwhile filling the page with pleas to throw money at every other mauler in the known universe.   It is the scam of scams, and their IDOL suffers for the lot of them.

On a slightly different topic....

From the Pit Bulls Cannot Be Identified file, some folks think that Mickey Is a Fake.  Personally, I am not convinced.   The pics are intriguing, but not convincing. I do a lot of photography, and camera angle, sun angle, flash and various camera settings can make a big difference.

Here is my thesis - they would not be able to keep Mickey's death a secret.  Moreover, what purpose would that serve?   Why not make Mick a martyr?  Hell, blame the cancer on that carcinogenic 4 year old's FACE!  That would keep the foamers stirred up!

In any case, here are some photos:

Blue eyed Mickey.  Note that Mick has *apparently* been brown eyed in most of his photos:

Another juxtaposition.

Mick DOES look blue eyed in the left photo.  Is this the same dog?  Is it TRUE that a pit bull cannot be identified?   Perhaps they have chameleon like tendencies?

Again, I am intrigued but not convinced.

Have a great weekend!

The stabbing controversy / Occams razor

Another doggy double standard outrage.  Man arrested and charged with animal cruelty after stabbing attacking pit bull.

Relevant Actors:

- Rocky Faircloth:  Pit Bull owner.
- "Semi":  Trespassing, attacking "Pit Bull"/unidentifiable breed mutt.
- Rodney Woodward:  Owner of victim GSD.  Stabbed Semi 21 times according to necropsy report.
- One injured GSD.

Note the use of quotes around "Pit Bull":  The comments on the article are true classics.  One robo poster relentlessly pursued the notion that pit bulls cannot be identified.  By anybody.  Because nobody has a clue about anything.  I made a few snarky comments in reply, but finally cut through the cubic light years of bullshit with the following....

Animal Uncontrol • 4 days ago

All of this chatter is noise. The man that stabbed the pit bull/unidentifiable breed mix/whatever was within his rights. An animal invaded his property and attacked his animal. Defending his animal in the way he did is an enumerated right almost everywhere. Pit bull or not this was NOT a case of animal cruelty.
Prosecuting this man is clearly a case of out of control, unhinged and unbalanced dog nuttery with no sense of proportion. You love dogs? Goody for you: Respect the right of others to protect their dogs from predators.

What was even more interesting were the pro-BSL folks that took the troll bait and flamed back in reply.  WHY does the entire world view of SO many people, on both sides of this debate, depend on what kind of dog it is?  From my perspective, the precise breed isn't central to the point.  The central point is, do you have a right to defend your animal from a trespassing canine attacker, or any realistic threat?   If the attacking animal were a rottweiler, or a cane corso, or a BEAR, it would be a distinction without a difference.

In my opinion, when a dog attacks, we do not necessarily WANT it to be one breed or the other.  What we want is for these bad behaviors to cease.  THAT would be a good outcome.

Now, if the invader were a gerbil, then that would lend the animal cruelty narrative some legitimacy.  A gerbil does not pose a realistic threat to a GSD.  A gerbil is not going to kill or even seriously injure a GSD.   However, the attacker was apparently not a gerbil.  In my opinion, as long as the threat is very plausible, the use of force is justified.

Back to the BSL debate - Breed ID "deniers" seem to violate the principle of Occams razor - that being that the simplest, most obvious explanation is probably the right one.  In this case, if several people see the same thing and they all agree on what it was, then that consensus is probably correct.  Sure, there may be a conspiracy, but that notion should be rejected without proof.

For example, a bank is robbed.  A half dozen eye-witnesses ID the getaway car as a red '60's vintage Ford Mustang.  These are readily identifiable vehicles.  So, you are not 100% sure a Mustang was the getaway car, but we can be sure enough.  You are never 100% sure of anything.  Competing theories, such as the car is unidentifiable because all of the witnesses were not retired Ford design engineers, are not very interesting.  "Nobody can ID a car!   It may have been a Mercedes Van, or a Chevy Pick Up!" the apologista bleat.  Yes, that is possible but very unlikely.  They could argue the colors, too - "Maybe they were ALL color blind!  They can't tell red from green!".   Yep, and maybe I'm the grand Ayatollah.

So, according to the apologista, NOBODY involved could ID the breed of "Semi".  Not the vics, not the cops, not the AC officers, not any of the neighbors that had seen the dog previously, not the vet that did the necropsy.  Nobody!   How do these people think the rest of us function.  How do we find our cars the the parking lot?  How do we identify our friends and family members?   Perhaps that person who looks like your spouse is not really your spouse.... maybe their long lost identical twin killed them and has taken their place?

Perhaps, Animal Uncontrol did not actually write this article.  Perhaps that person was cloned by aliens and this is all part of some big galactic conspiracy to turn humans against their dogs?  Now, THERE is a theory you can sink your teeth into!

Enjoy your weekend!

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Back from vacation.   Took my RV to a large National Forest Campground in the Appalachians.

Had a good time.

Being who I am, I observed many fellow campers with DOGS.  In a relatively small area in a relatively short period of time I was able to observe the full spectrum of dog ownership.

Lets start with the good.  Some folks in a class C motorhome had a Rough Collie (i.e. "Lassie") that was one of the best behaved dogs I had ever observed.  I am talking impeccable manners here.   The dog lay out in front of it's "home", casually people watching, calmly observing the goings on around it.  Not the smallest hint of hysteria or aggression. It made NO noise.  Why can't all dogs be like this?  Obviously, I do not know the full story - it may have been loaded up on valium for all I know.

Lets continue on with the Bad.  There were a few campers with overstimulated, hysterical little dogs that were just barely contained.   Periodically, something would trigger one or the other to emit a 5-10 nervous yaps before the owner shut it up.  Now, some would argue that a dog like this is not a true nuisance.  I would agree to the extent that A dog like this is not a true nuisance, where A = 1.   While one dog like this does not bark enough to be a true nuisance, if you have several of them in the immediate area they form a collective nuisance.   Dogs like this should be kenneled or left at home.

Now, moving on to the ugly.  There were a couple of archetypes indicated here:

The super yapper.  There was one small dog (a great distance from I, fortunately) that basically barked for the sake of barking.  Nothing triggered it or set it off in any way, it just barked.  And Barked.  And Barked.  Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp! Arp!  And, so forth.  I think you get the picture.  One important point I would like to make here, is, NO ONE goes on vacation in the forest to listen to someone else's pet dog bark incessantly.  The irritating noise is not useful, nor is it natural.  This behavior should be banned in entirety.  This was outside of my state (FL) and state park rangers in MY state would have thrown the dog out.

The aggression projector.  Every neighborhood has at least one of these and there were two of them in the area in question.  Again, I lucked out that neither was near me.  In any case, this was characterized as a Pit Bull/mix chained up near the front of the site.  It would frequently charge to the extent of the chain, growling and barking furiously at anyone who came near.   Again, this behavior would not have been tolerated in my state and both of these should have been thrown out as well.  In addition to the noise, if either of these dogs had broken restraint, someone would have wound up in the hospital.   It was obvious that both of these dogs were "game" and wanted to attack something. 

Read the pet camping rules in force in Florida State parks.  If they are going to allow pets, this is the right way to do it.

From the link above "Pets that are noisy, vicious, dangerous, disturbing or intimidating to other persons or pets, or which damage park resources, are considered to be nuisances and will not be permitted to remain in the park."

Get that, NC Forest Service?   Do it right!

Open Thread .02b

Happy Memorial Day!

Conversation starters:

Head down to Miami to adopt your illegal Pit Bull!  Courtesy of the CITY no less!

Hey, didn't they BAN these beasts in Miami waaaay back in 1989?   Didn't voters vote to UPHOLD that ban a few years ago?   Aw, hell.... Kudos to Miami Dade Animal Services for standing up to that RACIST LAW!   Ban Pit Bulls, INDEED!  What are they going to do next, send all the Jews to concentration camps???   Hey, if a DOG can have 5th amendment protections, he SURE AS HELL can have 14th Amendment protections!!!!


Mickey Fans outraged at news program for... reporting the news!

" I'm sickened that the first thing said was he mauled a child. So anyone who does not know this story automatically discriminates."

UM... that would be due to the fact that he DID maul a child?  And, the NEWS is about reporting facts, not extreme dog nutter agendas?  Perhaps the assumption was, unlike the Mick foamers and a few activists, the entire world does NOT know the full story?   I tell you... Mick's fans NEVER disappoint!


Learn the dog-nut entitlement/supremacist mentality in one article.   According to this article, its all your fault.  Get used to it!

The articles suggestions... with mine added!

Write a friendly letter and include what you think the dog is saying.   Excuse me, your dog tells me you are an asshole.  I am inclined to agree.

Offer to pay for a dog trainer’s first home visit.   What home?  I just seized it in a judgement.  

Buy us a bag of dog treats.   Exactly, because.... I exist to serve you?  How about I shove that bag of dog treats up your ass?   I will stick it up there right next to your head.

Book Review

Misunderstood Nanny Dogs.
Author:  J. Thomas Beasley

Published on May 2, 2015

Misunderstood Nanny Dogs?(Amazon Link) the new book by attorney J. Thomas Beasley, examines the horrors of pit bull maulings and fatalities and proposes common sense solutions to the "Pit Bull Problem."

 

I read this book, not once but twice.  First time, a page here a page there.  Second time, read end to end in one sitting. 

Me, being who I am, I would like to review the other reviewers.  Consider this:

The above indicates a very contentious social issue.  There are 2 reviews:  1) Those that consider it the Book of the Dead, and 2)  Those that consider it the Greatest Story Ever Told.  Did any of these people actually read the book?  Not ONE 2, 3 or 4 star review.  Anybody?

Hell, *I* will be the first to give a third point of view.  Perhaps I am the only person to actually read the book.

I will give it 7 out of 10.  3.5 stars.  In my magnanimity, I may round that up to 4 stars.

The author wrote a very good, very readable primer on the dangerous dog problem.  The writer has a good writing style, and I would read other books by this author.  His research and statistical analysis is excellent.   I would not debate anything presented in the book (unless paid to do so LOL!).

Any potential reader should consider that this is a primer.  If you have been following this issue, there is not much new here.  It does not delve into related social issues or root causes.  The purpose of the book is to initiate the general public to the problem.  The over-arching point is, these dogs do create a disproportionate amount of carnage, therefore prejudice against them at both a personal and societal level is wise.   So, with that said, it serves its purpose well. 

This is where I waver a bit... why a 7 and not an 8 or a 9?   While this is a primer, I think that reporting on this issue without tying it to the larger dog culture (even if just briefly) short changes the reader.   To the non-initiate, reading this book leaves the impression that this problem came out of nowhere and exists in a vacuum.  

For example, at one point in the book (spoiler alert!) the author makes the point that toys such as "Jarts" have been recalled from use after causing 3 deaths in 18 years.  Juxtapose that with the fact that Pit Bulls probably kill 3 people every month or so.  However, the author does not delve into why Jarts are banned and Pit Bulls are not only still available, but promoted as great family pets?   The "Pit Bull Lobby"!?  What about the "Jart Lobby" promoting those toys as perfectly safe for kids?   What Jart lobby?   Why is there a Pit Bull lobby and not a Jart Lobby?

The Pit Bull problem evolved, and persists, because dogs are granted a ridiculous amount of social and legal capital.  And, Pit Bulls are DOGS.  For example:  The one bite rule - it is a non-breed specific law designed to protect dangerous dogs and their owners from victims and complainants.   The problem persists because dog attacks are protected behavior.   Indeed, our society considers the victims the problem, NOT the dogs.

The author refers to the "Blame Machine":  Victims of pit bull attacks are summarily blamed for the attack.  I don't argue the existence of the "Blame Machine", merely that the exact same "Blame Machine" protects ALL bad dog behaviors!   Consider this essay from a few years ago.   Note that the dog in question was NOT a Pit Bull, yet the same Blame Machine launched a vicious attack against the victim, parents, authorities, and critics.   Anybody who complains about any dog for any reason is mercilessly pounded to dust by the Blame Machine.   I have been there many times.

In an equitable universe, the vile creatures would have been summarily banned decades ago.     Farm animals are zoned out of most places, and the largest cat I can own without restrictions is a Maine Coon (avg. weight ~18 lbs), yet I may own a back yard full of 150 lb canine supermaulers?  Anybody know why THAT is?  Anybody?  Bueller?

In any case, I digress (as I often do).   Again, the book is an excellent primer for the non-initiate.  Not everyone has the wherewithal to investigate all of this on their own.  

So, buy the book and don't forget to visit my blog.  THANKS FOR READING!

Party Time!

Anybody following the trial of Jena Wright in Iowa?   Dogsbite.org has the details.

Here is the article on the original incident.

Know what, Colleen did such a great job of reporting the incident and the follow up I will refrain from my usual snarky dissection (for now, I probably won't be able to control myself for much longer).

Long story short - Pit Bull owner exposes its KNOWN MAULER to a 4 year old, which the mauler (predictably) mauls to death.

Good news?  DOG OWNER FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS AND GOING TO PRISON FOR UP TO 35 YEARS!

All I can say is:

This is a HUGE win!  This is EPIC!  For us, this is like the flag being hoisted over Iwo Jima!

Thumbs up, Iowa Jury!

VUNDERBAR!

The Bait and Switch

Surprised when you get something you didn't expect nor were offered?  Sounds like the good 'ol Bait and Switch routine!

Animal rights foamers and dog fanatics pull the Bait and Switch on us all the time.  The most obvious example is "no one can identify a Pit Bull".  Indeed, they are unidentifiable when doing something wrong.  When they are behaving, they are readily identifiable as Pit Bulls.  I have posed the following question to Pit Bull fans on various forums, simply "If pit bulls are unidentifiable, how do you know your dog is a pit bull?".  This will be in response to a post of theirs where they state that their pit bull is simply the greatest dog ever (bait).  Yup... until it mauls, at which point it becomes an unidentifiable mutt (switch).

There was a good discussion about St. Mick of Maulsville under the last post.  Eileen tipped me off to the fact that they may be having a "parole" hearing for the Mickster later this week.  Indeed, Mick may be sprung from the jail.... look for Mickey in YOUR neighborhood.

In case anyone forgot, as a result of Mick's full due process (something reserved for HUMAN BEINGS), Mick was spared the "death penalty" (euthanasia) in exchange for LIFE in the jail (5 years or so).  He was NOT to be adopted out.  THOSE were the terms. 

The Mick situation goes to point as (Eileen pointed this out as well), the Mick foamers and AR nuts insist that dogs are people, and as such, have full protections under the US Constitution, CRA of 1964, Miranda, and similar:  They promote the notion that Dogs are people who deserve full due process when accused of any wrongdoing.   (Bait)

The Switch comes when the dog is "convicted" and "sentenced":  The same foamers that demanded a lawyer for Mick don't want the dog to face his COURT APPOINTED punishment, or to be held accountable in ANY WAY because.... its JUST a dog!  Its a wee little furbaby!  It ain't Charles Manson or some Nazi war criminal!  Its just a POOR LITTLE WOOGIE that had no idea what it was doing!  Moreover, unlike a human convict, a dog has NO quality of life in prison, unlike his human cellmates that can read, work out at the gym, write letters, and even be productive.  How many license plates is Mickey going to stamp?   Sending Mick to jail is just CRUEL, right?

This is another example of canine supremacists using the bait and switch to gain protection FOR the dog, while there is none FROM the dog.   Under the current regime, dogs have rights but no accountability.  This arrangement is the polar opposite of what it should be.

Think about it - if a dog is a person, should they not have to DIRECTLY answer for what they did?  Isn't a dog that barks all the time DIRECTLY accountable for disturbing the peace, the same as a human would be?   Shouldn't canine trespass be held to the same standards as a human trespass?

All this goes to point that "animal rights" has to be one of the dumbest concepts, ever.  A dog has NO concept of laws or due process.   Our criminal justice system means NOTHING to them, it is beyond their comprehension.   The idea of giving a DOG 5th amendment protections is breathtakingly retarded.  And, the Mickey debacle PROVES that.

If Mick's Ilk do get him sprung, I do not see a good outcome.  Either someone is going to try to kill the beast, or its going to attack somebody.  The AR foamers are going to own THAT one too!