Happy Birthday, Sara

People may wonder why I hate breed-specific legislation so much. It's personal as much as intellectual.

This is a picture of my late and much-missed "pit bull", Sara. She qualified as a "pit bull" under Ontario's unjust, unfounded breed-specific legislation. Why? Because I couldn't prove that she wasn't.

Sara was a shelter dog whom I adopted at roughly 8 months of age. No one knows what happened to her before that but I can make an informed guess, because she was a lunatic when I got her. She was untrained, and grabbed and bit because she was frightened of people. My hands were black with bruise from being grabbed, and I have a scar on my upper lip where she made a lunge for my face. After much, much, much work, feeling exhausted and discouraged because I wasn't seeing any improvement, something incredible happened. Sara got a rose thorn in her paw. Without being called, she came to me - limping, it was a huge thorn - to have me "fix it". We took a big step towards each other that day.

Sara improved greatly over the years, showing her intelligence and her sense of humour (yes, some dogs have a sense of humour). She took everything in stride - foster dogs, cats, foster kittens - with patience. Sara would let foster kittens crawl on her, and helped me train foster puppies; she got the biggest grin on her face when she chastised a foster puppy for urinating in the house, she obviously got a kick out of being the "boss dog". She was a wonderful companion. Sara passed away in 2007, and I miss her every day.

Ontario's vague and shoddy BSL has killed approximately 12,000 dogs, adults and puppies alike, solely because of the way they look, not because of their behaviour. If some dog-hating moron had called my dog a "pit bull", I would have become a second-class citizen in Ontario and had no way to defend my Sara.

Breed-specific legislation is wrong. It's downright evil. It makes responsible dog owners into second-class citizens, and kills dogs for political expedience. Any politician who proposes or supports breed-specific legislation is an uninformed or self-interested ass, who cannot be trusted.

Rest in peace, Sara. At least you didn't have to be torn from your home and family to die alone in a shelter, condemned just because of the way you looked.

"Pit bull" rally was a smashing success!

Congratulations to the organizers, I thought there was a great turnout for an event that was word of mouth.

The event was blessed by the weather gods, a threatening raincloud blew over and didn't soak us.

I got my doggie fix hugging and kissing all the "pit bulls" and other dogs that were there, all such sweeties! All the closed minds and uninformed people out there should get "pitty kisses" to understand that it's not the dog, it's the owner.

Justice must be found for Boost and his owners

Yes Biscuit! has the disgusting story of Bost, the Boxer who got loose and was turned in to the local shelter by good Samaritans in Walker County, AL. The shelter director killed him immediately and so the owner's heart was broken when he showed up promptly to redeem his pet.

May that shelter director rot in Hell.

Read it here.

Want to get a degree on your dog?

Well, try the CGN test!!!

Full information at Wag The Dog.

Harvey Levin from TMZ needs to get informed

I am seriously p*ssed off. Harvey Levin, who hosts some celebrity "news" show (which seems to consist of videos of people walking), displayed his complete lack of knowledge about dogs by muttering something about "pit bulls" and an enzyme in their brains. His built-in peanut gallery nod their heads like bobble dolls in the backs of cars.

More media crapola we have to deal with. I don't know if celebrity video shows qualify as mainstream.

Harv, Harv, Harv. Show me the scientific proof to back up your claim about "enzymes" in a "pit bull" brain.

Bet'cha can't.

Because neither exists. Neither the enzyme nor any scientific proof.

Harv, get informed. This is a much bigger battle than you probably know.