Montreal bans pit bulls - shelter dogs to be euthanized, current owners subject to strict regulations

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After a fatal dog attack three months ago the city of Montreal has ruled to ban all pit bull breeds, or dogs that share common traits with pit bulls (large heads, muscular build, etc.) The law goes fully into effect Monday, after which pit bull owners will be required to purchase a special permit. Pit bulls must be kept on a leash no longer than 4 feet and cannot be outside without a muzzle. The way the law is worded implies that any violation of these regulations will be grounds for the dog to be seized and euthanized. Pit bulls currently in shelters will not be allowed to be adopted and will be euthanized after the law takes effect.

Rescue groups are attempting to move pit bulls to other provinces, and many veterinarians are saying they will refuse to put down healthy dogs. However, under the new law vets that won't euthanize will be required to refer the dogs to vets that will.
 
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Mars Attacks! said:
https://www.thedodo.com/pit-bull-ban-montreal-permit-2024690294.html

After a fatal dog attack three months ago the city of Montreal has ruled to ban all pit bull breeds, or dogs that share common traits with pit bulls (large heads, muscular build, etc.) The law goes fully into effect Monday, after which pit bull owners will be required to purchase a special permit. Pit bulls must be kept on a leash no longer than 4 feet and cannot be outside without a muzzle. The way the law is worded implies that any violation of these regulations will be grounds for the dog to be seized and euthanized. Pit bulls currently in shelters will not be allowed to be adopted and will be euthanized after the law takes effect.

Rescue groups are attempting to move pit bulls to other provinces, and many veterinarians are saying they will refuse to put down healthy dogs. However, under the new law vets that won't euthanize will be required to refer the dogs to vets that will.
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PETA would love them.
 
Wannabe gangsters usually want to own pit bulls because they are seen as a "tough" dog. Those same people usually are bad at caring for dogs and the dog ends up being vicious due to mistreatment. Ban stupid people from owning pets instead.
 
I'm glad they're finally doing something about "assault-style" dogs.

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However, under the new law vets that won't euthanize will be required to refer the dogs to vets that will.
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"We understand that your ethics won't allow you to do this, so we'd like you to find us someone unethical who will."

I mean I guess I get it, but that still sucks.
 
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This has been national news here for a while. I'm no fan of pit bull terriers but the issue has always been the toothlessness of animal cruelty laws and the total inability of the law to hold owners accountable.

Banning breeds doesn't work because the average person doesn't know enough about dogs to identify them. Dog breeds are too numerous and genetically complex for such law to be fair without performing DNA testing on every suspect dog and that's not happening. Incidentally, the dog responsible for the death that rushed this law into existence was never actually DNA tested to be a pit bull.

What every government should be doing is reinforcing the law to make dog owners vulnerable to criminal charges or seizure in cases of severe injury or death and cracking down on lazy, underfunded enforcement that lets stupid hicks get away with abusing their dog and letting it run rampant for what's usually years. Nearly 100% of the time if a dog does anything but kill someone, it's only a slap on the wrist that's quickly forgotten.

The provincial SPCAs' critical weakness is that they're delegated power to investigate and lay criminal charges but what little funding they get is quickly sucked away into bloated executive salaries and kickbacks for "consultants", especially in Quebec which is corrupt as sin.
 
I'd like even the people charged with enforcing this law to identify a "pit bull" on sight. People who want to be shitty dog owners who bully others with aggressive dogs will just find some other breed that slips around the legal definition and continue to be complete pieces of shit.

Meanwhile all kinds of innocent dogs will be rounded up and killed, whether or not they're even "pit bulls," just because some shithead called up and reported a "pit bull" because they're chickenshits mad at their neighbor.
 
This is just animal cruelty, plain and simple. This is just so unethical and quite frankly, downright evil.
 
Pitbulls actually tend to be some of the most friendly and loyal dogs if not the most. Pretty much the owner's fault.
 
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jawze said:
Wannabe gangsters usually want to own pit bulls because they are seen as a "tough" dog. Those same people usually are bad at caring for dogs and the dog ends up being vicious due to mistreatment. Ban stupid people from owning pets instead.
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Definitely. People who want fighting dogs are of course going to want a big strong breed. Pit bulls are just the latest target of blame after boxers, rottweilers, German shepherds, dobermans, or any other large dog. After the ban goes through people are just going to find another large breed and treat them the same shitty way they treat their current dogs.

They really should just punish the owners who don't train their dogs properly or mistreat them. Like in NY, there's an animal abuse registry sort of like the sex offender registry. Acting like every pit bull is dangerous because of some dumb assholes is like assuming that everyone who owns a gun is a mass murderer.
 
Why don't they just ban the shitty owners? Pitbulls are not bad perse, it's just the awful humans who make them violent. I just lost hope in humanity everytime kiwifarms post a sad new like that (:_(:heart-empty:
 
Sounds like something a mentally challanged third world dictator would do. But it is the ban Pepe year.

Like which south american dictator was it who had all black dogs shot because he believed his brother transformed into a black dog via magic?
 
Required comment on how it's the owner of the dog and not the dog itself that creates a dangerous dog, all dogs should be trained to be docile, regardless of their breed.
It just happens to be impatient and stupid people who like to have big and powerful dogs.

I got mauled by a cattledog when I was a toddler, and they're one of the most 'docile' breeds.
 
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