For weeks we had this black Lab running around here, roaming the streets. He was only out at certain times, so we assumed he belongs to somebody and they just let him out instead of walking him.
We tried to catch him, no go. We tried to follow him to find out where he lives, he kept evading us. Animal Control came out a few times, didn't work.
Last week he was killed by a pitbull. Animal Control wrote the owner of the pit a ticket.
Now ask me if I am going to walk my dogs any time soon. I know the pit is usually loose, he has followed us a few times with that red zone stare.
Maybe I should get one of those sticks the police has, because I'm not going to walk around with a baseball bat, and pepper spray has shown to be useless against red zone dogs in general.
Some of my elderly neighbors walk with a cane here, none of them needs it for walking..isn't that sad?
Every idiot in this neighborhood with a low self esteem has a pitbull to make up for it...all the wrong reasons. How do you live with that? Or a better question: what do you DO about it?
I personally love pitbulls, they are beautiful dogs, but as with every breed, there are some bad apples and because they are very strong dogs, they can do more damage. Now putting this power into the wrong hands and you have a ticking time bomb.
Eliminating the breed is not the answer, because another breed will take it's place in no time. When I grew up, the "bad guys" were the German Shepherds.
However, tougher laws on owners of exceptionally powerful dogs (above a certain weight and/or size maybe, which would include me too) might help. But laws need to be enforced and that's where the solution usually fails. Not enough manpower.
If everybody who has a dog above a certain size would need to obtain a permit and show proof of vaccination and proof of being spayed or neutered, that would be a start. Breeding such dogs would require a harder to obtain permit.
Germany has a very nice system where every dog owner has to have a permit, and that law is being enforced. Animal shelters there have waiting lines for adoptions, sometimes people wait for months before a dog becomes available! So I know it works.
Maybe it is time to propose a new law?
5/30/08
Stephenville: Pitbull kills Black Lab, Owner ticketed
5/14/08
Miss Dolittle's Critter Newsletter for May 2008
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Dog Updates...Olivia: she is doing wonderfully! She overcame her false pregnancy finally and shows interest in other things, especially the rest of the pack. Now that she is spayed, heartworm-free and feeling good about herself, she is playing and acting like a puppy all day long.
Honey: It is time that the rabies quarantine is over (on May 23rd), so she can get out of this yard and start some training. Her intelligence is bubbling over and almost screaming to be used. For more updates on the dogs keep reading the Puppyeducation Blog!
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3 out of 9 Kittens left: 3 female kittens were raised by Serenity, but they are not her own. They are still waiting for the right person to come along and adopt them!
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2 Great Danes and 2 Yellow Labs
Olivia, Olliver, Sandy, Butters, and Honey are playing in the yard. The second half of the movie shows Olivia barking at the thunder all the time...as if she expected Godzilla to come around the corner! She barked all night, was not to calm down. We had storms before, but she never acted this way. I'm not sure what to make out of that one.
I was thinking of animals acting strange before an earthquake or something like that, but nothing of that sort happened.
5/4/08
Olivia, Great Dane, digs a den
I can't get enough watching Olivia being a real dog and do the things dogs do. Here she is taking full advantage of the "designated dig area, for dogs only!"
She had started to dig this den when she was into the full blown false pregnancy. But this blew over fast, however, the den is still very fascinating to her.
5/3/08
Olivia's stitches are out!
The final suture was removed today and Olivia is all done! It looks like she got over her false pregnancy as well and is acting like a real dog. I'm taking her on daily walks now, usually to the park. She is so good on the leash...I actually don't need one and let her off leash when nobody is around.
She likes to say hi to the other dogs, but since she is so big, other dog owners, especially the ones with small dogs, act a bit concerned at first, which I understand.
She even likes the ducks at the park, at a distance. She shows no predatory behavior at all:
