If you could BAN anything....

[Mulva]

I would ban sexual objectivity of women and girls in the media.

[curlyhead21]

There IS a difference between breeds, I think everybody knows this - surely. Size, temperament, strength. You can get some pretty angry Jack Russells but I doubt we'd read stories of them latching onto children when the owner is trying to pry them off the child and the child dying.

Yep, this is what I meant when I orginially posted! There is a difference between breeds!

I am a dog lover who has worked in dog rescue shelters. Any dog, big or small, that has been mistreated will do some serious damage if provoked. The difference between the breeds is that the ones with strong jaws and neck muscles have the physical ability to kill a small child if they wanted.

I just think they should be banned. There is no need for them in our society.

[ShanandBoc]

Ban making children grow up too quickly. Let kids be kids!

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[fairyflossfairy]

People who feel the need to ban things that have no bearing on THEIR individual existence like Gay Marriage.

I would like to ban parents who go over the speed limit and make them WALK THROUGH the school zones. As they find 10k and 40k to hard

[beebs]

Ban people who try and make *everything* into a competition about who has it worse when they have never been in said situation ever. I hate it, its like when I had really bad PTSD, PND, anxiety, panic and agoraphobia - I had a friend who said things like "I felt blue today, but I just forced myself to get out of the house and now I feel better, you should try it"

[wantingtostart]

Sheeple.

[Rachell]

Go with their instincts? They were originally bred as herding dogs, then progressed to children's nannies, and then progressed to dragging injured soldiers off the battlefield because of their jaw strength and loyalty.
Which of those original instincts relates to killing?

What's sad is that chances are you wouldn't be able to pick a APBT out of a lineup of about 100 other breeds. They are banned here in vic, have been for a while. Yet bite statistics have risen in the past year.

At least another poster had the right idea about it being the owner's fault.
If you're mentally deranged enough to take a small puppy and abuse it to the point where it defies it's instincts {see what I did there? } and becomes HA or DA...it's not really going to matter what breed of dog it is.
Ban the APBT and the nutters move onto something else. Eventually the only resource left to you is to ban every single breed of dog or any animal over knee height, which is illogical.

Dangerous dogs belong to dangerous owners. I had a DA Dobermann and he died last year, after 10 years of never biting or even rushing another dog. That's because I recognised his aggression, took steps to prevent it escalating, and contained him in a responsible and appropriate manner.

Sadly, that's too hard for some people. They prefer to buy an underage "english staffy" from the Trading Post, shove it outside on a chain, beat it when it bites for attention, encourage it to bark and snarl at strangers, and then when it escapes and mauls someone they say "It wasn't me! It's the dog's fault!". Then they go and buy another. Repeat cycle of abuse.

Banning certain breeds just prevents the responsible owners from owning them. The idiots don't give a damn if they're illegal...they're already breaking the law by having an unregistered, uncontained aggressive dog; what do they care if they break another law by having a restricted breed, unregistered, uncontained aggressive dog. Once they can no longer buy an APBT, they'll buy a Stafford. Once those are banned and bred out, they'll buy a Great Dane. Once those are banned and bred out, they'll buy a Labrador....while the majority of owners are saying "Hey, that's not fair! None of my dogs have ever bitten someone!" Nope, but the idiot's dogs will keep biting, because the dog isn't the issue.

Some other countries have wised up to BSL costing too much and being too ineffective, and have taken on owner-based responsibility laws. Their dog bite statistics have dropped remarkably, dump rates have dropped, shelter euthanasia rates have dropped...all round good.
I believe that Holland and the Netherlands have implemented "Your Dog, Your Responsibility" programs, with great national success.

Too bad our Government is still 10 years behind in their problem solving abilities. While they pour money into yet another program that doesn't work and just takes us backwards.

We watched a doco the other night about this.
We were quite surprised to find out that Labs and German Shepherds bite more children then Pit-bulls and bull-terrier mixes eg staffies yearly.
Unfortunately bad owners/organized fighters have been using pit-bulls, but once they are no longer around then dead beet owners will just but a different breed.. It will be a cycle.

I defiantly agree that it comes down to the owners.
You need a license to own reptiles, they should have one for dogs too.

[Theboys&me]

Autocorrect

Embarrasses me no end!

[SassyMummy]

*Couch Time (why is Stav ALWAYS dressing up a chick?)
*Rihanna
*Cheap artificial nails. They were once for wealthier women who could afford a good job... now they're just cheap tacky things bogans love (not always, but most you'll see are nasty).
*The BMI system
*Mayonnaise
*Backwards, conservative ways of thinking (or at least, putting those beliefs onto others and forcing them to live in a world controlled by that thinking)
*organised religion (this does not mean banning the belief in god)

Allowing junkies to have babies...make them get fixed

Today I met an amazing ex-addict. She's approx 50 and has been drug-free for 20 years... but was a huge junkie before that time. She's a teacher at my college, and is just fantastic. I don't think she has children, but honestly, I think that woman would do a damn fine job of raising children to be capable, independant, amazing adults.

Addicts can overcome their addiction and live with it without using... and some people will become addicts AFTER having children. Unfortunately, many addicts will eff up their bodies so much having children becomes near impossible anyway.

[Misschief]

I believe that Holland and the Netherlands have implemented "Your Dog, Your Responsibility" programs, with great national success.

Too bad our Government is still 10 years behind in their problem solving abilities. While they pour money into yet another program that doesn't work and just takes us backwards.

First of all Holland and the Netherlands are the same country just 2 different names.
Yes the owner is indeed fully responsible when a dog bites someone there. This law seems to be working as there is NO regulation on dangerous dogs there. Anyone and everyone can have a dangerous "fighting dog" and as many dogs as they want too. No matter if they have been trained and are social or not. Yet biting incidents are a lot less over there even though there are a lot more dangerous dogs out there in an immensely crowded country.
Another thing is that here in Australia a lot of dogs live outside in a kennel. In the Netherlands they don't. They are mostly kept inside because of the cold weather. So the chance of a dog biting someone who walks past their house or a child playing on the street, is less as well.