Speier Introduces Bill to Allow Local Dog Breed-Specific Ordinances

[The Straight Story]

Speier Introduces Bill to Allow Local Dog Breed-Specific Ordinances

A Bay Area legislator is introducing legislation that would amend state law to allow local municipalities to use spay/neuter and breeding restrictions to regulate specific dog breeds.

The action comes on the heels of six known pit bull attacks on humans this month, including the fatal mauling of a San Francisco boy.

Senate Bill 861, sponsored by state Sen. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, was approved by the Assembly Local Government Committee on a 4-2 today and now moves for debate to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

San Francisco is already moving toward stricter dog ownership regulations, but cannot enact ones targeting dog breeds with a tendency toward aggressiveness or viciousness without a change in state law. The city's mayor, Gavin Newsom, has proposed, for example, that owners of specific aggressive breeds be required to carry liability insurance, as well as neuter or spay those pets. Dogs not neutered or spayed would be seized by the city and altered at the owner's expense. The proposed regulations would also require microchips be implanted in certain breeds for quicker identification. What's termed "backyard breeding" would be disallowed.

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[Ignoramus]

1. Are the tv stations getting paid off to do this propaganda?

I was wondering what could be behind this obvious invented dog bite "epidemic". Obviously, there can't be such a thing as a dog bite epidemic. They are inventing an epidemic by choosing to report stories about dog bites, identifying their reports as a pattern and putting links to grouped information about their coverage of "the rash of dog bites".

Then, I read this, and also they were talking about it on the tv along with their dog bite skit. The tv story said insurance companies will deny coverage for dog bites from specific breeds.

I bet someone from an insurance company or an organized group of property owners is influencing the tv news to engage in this propaganda.

[nikraye]

2. ASPCA OPPOSES this Bill. So should everyone who loves animals...

Go to ASPCA's action alert website and contact CA's legislature opposing such "breed specific" legislation!

Speier's bill is a knee-jerk reaction to the June 2005 mauling of a SF boy. If you knew the specifics behind the family who owned the Pit Bulls in this case, you would KNOW it was the white trash human owners, not the dogs, who are responsible for the boy's death.

Don't punish an entire breed for the misdeeds of irresponsible humans.

Punish the humans!

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