Please help me stop pitbull bans in Chicago!?

Question

Me and my boyfriend want to get a pitbull bit if they ban them i cant get one! People who will help me please sign people who disagree please don't sign!!! ^_^

Answer 1

if only i lived in chicago. i live in colorado but i would love to do anything i can to help. pit bulls are a noble breed with a long and loving history. they are beautiful and majestic they are one of the sweetest dogs you could ever own. just tell me what i can do to help.

Answer 2

BLS is a flawed concept from the moment it is conceived. In most cases the dogs are targeted leaving the owner, which is the responsible, rational thinking party out if it. Some impose fines along with their laws but are often no enforced to the maximum so the owner gets a slap on the wrist.

Dogs are not the problem and BLS dose not recognize this. People are the problem and until we find a way to punish people for their neglectful actions which allow dogs to bite and terrorize the public we will never stop the problem.

First problem is take one breed away, these people will find another breed to replace it. In most places were APBT have been ban the rottweiler is now on the rise as the most popular breed. Now they are taking the heat from BLS and its supporters. They will agin restrict a breed just to have another take its place. This will happen till they run out of large breed dogs and we have lost our right to have the breed of dog we love. BLS can be compared to gender and racial profiling.

Media reports lead the public to believe that packs of roaming Pit Bulls are more likely to bite than the neighborhood dog on his leash. Over 80% of dog bites occur when the dog is with its owner or ON his owner’s property. A large number of small children are bitten by dogs they know while visiting the dog’s home. Because stories of pit bulls stimulate fear, the media is likely to report all cases of biting pit dogs or pit mix but oit stories of injury by poodles and spaniels [which is the most frequently reported biters]. In addition, the media reports “attacks” when guarding breed barks at or chases someone even when no one is injured. This adds to the public’s perception that this type of dog is more dangerous than any other dog. Some statistics lump several breeds into one category and report that “ PIT Bulls” cause more serious bites that any other breed. This would be similar to counting all bites inflicted by Retrievers [Golden, Duck Tolling, Flat Coats, Lab, etc.] and comparing that total to bites inflicted by miniature wirehaired Daschunds. It would appear that Retrievers are much more dangerous than the Daschunds.

A report about the local Labrador Retriever that attacks and maims a child isn’t considered newsworthy No one wants to believe that any family dog, the cute and fuzzy kind, are capable of biting. It’s much easier to blow up and sensationalist a story about a vicious dog when it’s a member of a breed who’s reputation precedes it. Pit Bull are already considered the demons. All reporters have to do is stand in front of the camera, look horrified and say, “A pit bull did it.”


So why is it then that more BLS laws are implement daily? God forbid a person have to take responsibility for their irresponsible actions and BLS supports these people by not placing very harsh punishments on them.

This is a speech I wrote for someone also fighting BLS. USe it if you want

Answer 3

This venue is the wrong palce to get people to help you change laws in your area. You need to do several things THERE.

Educate people. The breed has a bad rep because of the nature in which it is portrayed and used. Change the image and get people to stop treating the animals as entertainment.

The internet is a great place to get information, but a lousy one to get real changes enacted. For that you need to collect signatures from registered voters and get the local legislators to accept that people want a change.

Answer 4

I am a dog lover. I love the Pit Bulls I have met personally. Unfortunately, Pit Bulls maul people in Chicago.

This gang of Pit Bulls attacking a boy they knew and regularly played with was in the Chicago Tribune magazine a couple of years ago. I cried when I read it. The boy has no chance of a normal life. The dogs ate a lot of his muscle. http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=3608362

A five year old boy:
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_301113403.html

Then there was the Chicago girl on her way to school:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17261342/

A suburban Chicago boy who is in intensive care due to pit bull attack:
http://www.doggienews.com/2005/11/father-wants-tough-pit-bull-laws.htm

Answer 5

After volunteering in a no-kill shelter in Chicago and seeing how horribly the pitbulls were abused there is no way I support this. Staff-Xs were the only dogs we had to put down. They were fought and abandoned in school yards as a joke. They were abandoned in cemetaries and terrorized visitors. You want to lift the proposed ban? Then get all the homeboys to stop fighting the poor dogs and abandoning them in residential areas.

Answer 6

Sorry but you have the problem of the few screwing it up for the many. I know pits, like any dog are as good as the people who own them, problem is irresponsible jerks don't care for them, teach them to fight, then abandon them in high density populated areas.

Answer 7

I would say to you: Do you have the means to pay the medical bills of anyone who might be injured by your dog if it got loose?
Think about the consequences of owning a pit-bull before you get one.

Answer 8

well then put my name on the list. i would do anything to help. my name is Karen Trickey. i hope everyone else will sign too. good luck