Ban a Pit bull, Save a Life: Why the Ontario Ban against Pit bull Terriers Should Remain in Place

"Mom, mom, the dog got Cody, the dog got Cody" (Vancouver Sun, 2007). A few days after Christmas in 2004, these were the screams that awakened Sheri Fontaine. Fang Dan ran from her bed to her living room and found her 3 year old son Cody Fontaine temporarily staying in her house. Sadly, young Cody could not escape from attack. A young life, the mother's life is ruined. Unfortunately, this story is not as unusual as violence against people, they show a very stubborn feature that makes them hard to control, and the ban has proven to be highly effective It was.

In 2014, there was new statistical evidence on the ban on "Bulldog" at American Pit Bull Terrier and American Staffordshire Terrier in Ontario, Canada, in particular in Canada. According to the report, since the ban has been implemented, two types of dogs and dog breeds in Toronto, the state's largest city, have been drastically reduced, but the overall dog bite is in the 2013 and 2014 century It reached the highest level. Varieties tend to be more general than hip arthroplasty abnormalities. Elimination of performance helps eliminate this and other problems such as patella problems, thyroid dysfunction, congenital heart failure. The American Pit Bull Terrier thinning the color of the coat does not have excessive skin allergy like other varieties.

Bulldog, Staffordshire, Bull Terrier, American Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier's dog with appearance and features, other varieties usually called bulldog, bulldog, or bulldog. Any combination of these breeds Bulldogs are voluntary with unique features that substantially conform to standards set by American Kennel clubs or Joint Kennel clubs, as described in the identification list kept by the city hall Can be identified as a dog. Identification using the above criteria should be evident at first glance and can be inferred that dogs are Bulldog's refutable estimates.

As Bronwen Dickey mentioned in her book "The Bullfighting", the term "bulldog" is a flexible, incorrect and subjective phrase. Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier. According to this definition, the dog weighs from 25 pounds to 100 pounds. They are known for many years with many names, but this term also includes miscellaneous dogs with special traits. As Dicke wrote, "The same features can be found in more than 20 breeds, a recent genetic study shows that many mixed species dogs are identified as" pit mixes "not It was. Please know that they became shorthands for "common form dogs - medium-sized smoothly painted fools". In short, any bulldog can be any dog