DNA Is New Weapon In Fight Against Dogfighting - Good or Bad?

[RamboLiberal]

Scientists are hoping that a new DNA database for dogs will help track — and prosecute — people who breed dogs to fight. But advocates say there's a risk that the DNA records could be used against the dogs, or against people who adopt them.

The idea is to have a canine version of the FBI's CODIS — a database of human DNA that is used to connect criminals to crime scenes. But in this case, the DNA might help prove that breeders supplied dogs to a dogfighting ring.

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Still, the dog database makes some people very nervous — among them, Ledy VanKavage, an attorney for the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah.

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She said she worries that the genetic information could be like a scarlet letter on the dogs, precluding even the gentle ones from being adopted. Companies could refuse to sell homeowners insurance to people who adopt former fighting dogs. That would be unfair, she says, because as with people, DNA is not destiny.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130109560

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Well, I haven't heard a good reason against it.

Shouldn't people adopting former fighting dogs be told anyway?

[Brickbat]

2. I don't care how gentle a dog is -- if it has been involved in fighting, and the adoption agency

knows about it, they better be telling me.

[Riftaxe]

3. Prosecuted for owning a dog that share's DNA...

how could this possibly go wrong? :shrug:


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