Bully Breed Lovers Take On Douglasville's Proposed Pit Bull Ban

By Carly Stewart for clatl.com

ATLANTA – You go to the pound. You find the cutest dog on the planet sitting in one of the cages, staring up at you with baleful eyes. You adopt this dog, love this dog, train this dog. She becomes part of your family. One day, a dog of the same breed in a neighborhood 20 miles away bites somebody. A few weeks later, after exhaustive media coverage of this event, your landlord comes knocking at your door and says you have to get rid of your dog. Why? Because she happens to be a pit bull.

Breed-specific legislation, or BSL, typically manifests as a ban or restriction on a breed of dog — but let’s be honest, it’s almost always pit bulls. The law typically can be traced to some idiot who picked up a dog from a backyard breeder, ignored it, failed to spay or neuter it, neglected to teach it basic obedience, and didn’t care enough to make sure it wasn’t out roaming. So one day, unsurprisingly, this dominant, pent-up, powerful dog bites somebody, and the community decides to protect itself by outlawing the breed.

“Every single pit bull owner reflects on another pit bull owner,” says Liz Henderson, founder of Atlanta Pit Bull Parents. Henderson represented the organization at a Douglasville debate on a potential pit bull ban last month, arguing for legislation that would ban individual aggressive dogs, not an entire breed. The proposed ban would be gradual, and current pit owners would be able to keep their dogs, with some restrictions.

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Lin
Lin
13 years ago

Oh, and now Douglassville wants to add its name to the many towns who should have Idiot in front of their names! BSL does NOT work…most pitties are wonderful dogs!

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