Originally Posted by
95EagleAWD
It's not like those stats are gonna get filled in by something else. Those dogs simply wouldn't be there to hurt anyone.
Toronto's experience with a pit bull ban disputes this claim. Yes, they reduced bites from breeds they classified as pit bulls, but overall, their dog bite numbers went up. Yet in Calgary, we have reduced the overall number of bites with no breed specific laws. And we should be using Canadian stats when debating a pit bull ban in Canada, but that probably wouldn't be effective since lethal dog attacks aren't really as big an issue is Canada as ban proponents would have you believe.
Originally Posted by
Tik-Tok
Nobody cares about your semantics.
It is relevant though. If we are going to accept lumping several breeds into a single category and then use those numbers as proof of a problem, then we should do it for the others as well. And we should use the definitions used by a recognized body, for Canada that would probably be the CKC. Under that guideline, "pit bulls" fall into the terrier group. Which puts them behind the working dog category.
Last edited by FraserB; 09-19-2018 at 12:39 PM.
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