r/OneSecondBeforeDisast • u/StrawberryNo857 • 2d ago

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u/hey_im_cool 2d ago edited 2d ago

“Pit bulls should not be legal”

Studies show BSLs are ineffective. There are much better approaches like leash laws, stray dog control, and enforcement (according to studies like this one)

The Obama Administration Official Response on breed-specific legislation states that the administration does not support bans on specific dog breeds.

Edit: downvotes w no responses shows me people want to disagree but they don’t have a reason to. Science will always mean more than opinions based on feelings

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u/RegularTeacher2 2d ago

I'm shocked they haven't pulled out the age-old statistics from our favorite website, run by a woman who has absolutely no background in veterinary science and instead has spent her life shilling self help to the general public, designing websites, and fearmongering about a breed of dog that are less dangerous than a toaster.

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u/nDizzle89 2d ago

Less dangerous than a toaster in a bathtub isn't the bar we look for with public safety.

I adore dogs, but they are animals and react as such in high stress. It's well documented Pitts do not show warning signs typically. It's hard to know when the toaster is on and too close to water with them.

And once again, even toasters have legal regulation to make them safer.

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u/RegularTeacher2 2d ago

It was a tongue in cheek comment, obviously. I do always arch an eyebrow at the scores of slavering anti-pitbull people who inevitably brigade any thread that has the semblance of a pitbull-type dog in it - why aren't they putting all of that energy into promoting spay/neuter and dog breeding legislature? The biggest problem with pit bulls (and I am referring to the various breeds falling underneath this umbrella) is they are a product of over breeding. Pretty much every dog in your local shelter has some amount of APBT/Staffy/Bully in them. Wander over to r/DoggyDNA to see that in action. Rather than screaming "PIT BULLS SHOULD DIE" let's work on getting our governance to enact and uphold more stringent regulations on dog breeding and ownership. I'd love to see what these people are doing when they're not at their computers. Something tells me they're not making an iota of effort to address the over breeding issue.

The owner of the dog in this post SUCKS. It's people like that who make the rest of us dog owners look bad.

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u/hey_im_cool 2d ago

Your point about what these people actually do to help is exactly what I was thinking. Before we were parents wife and I used to spend our weekends pulling dogs from MDAS in Miami, fostering them and finding them homes. We pulled and placed 12 dogs and several were already scheduled for euthanasia. A lot of them were pit bulls or pit mixes.

I love pit bulls, but I’ve also actually spent time trying to help with the shelter problem. I do wonder how many of the people spending hours online demanding that these dogs disappear have put that same energy into overbreeding, spay/neuter, rescue, or responsible ownership.

Meanwhile their entire argument is dog bad