Ontario Pit Bull Ban Petition

[DOBERMAN]

Any of my friends or aquaintances who had pitbulls did not have an aggressive or dysfunctional dog. I thought they were all great. Now, the white trash low lives who owned them around my area to act tough and project an image of intimidation, and who backyard "bred" without any thought or care to inbreeding issues, well, that was becoming a problem. Once the pit ban was in effect, you saw a surge in ownership of boxers, and I was worried they would become the next breed put in the crosshairs.
Ban the idiots not the dogs.

[moshirimon]

I noticed the surge of boxers. Closest/cheapest thing they can get to the appearence of a pit in a way. But i agree i have friends who own pits and let their dog off leash in their neighborhood. Now if you ask me it doesnt sound too responsible, but still the dog is known in the area and has never caused a problem.

Still though, well behaved or not, the presence of a pitbull is something else. the power displayed by the posture, attitude, and awareness of a high end pit is something not seen in most other dogs from what i've seen. Id say they could cause serious damage and really are intimidating animals, just require more training as they are hard headed, but very smart.

I signed it though. Im in the area and i hope to own a brindle bluenose myself one day.

[stephanbakir]

Yeh, I love the big bluenoses my sister breeds, MASSIVE heads on those guys. Super well behaved, she actually doesn't sell them to people who want them as guard dogs... they were built to love.

We let them off leash at my cottage, 4-5 pits running around but they are super well behaved and obedient. My only complaint is that their brains get them into trouble :P They try and trick people into doing what they want all the time lol

[Corey209]

I took my pup (blue nose american bully) to the pet store Sunday where they have a weekly thing for microchipping, vaccines and any other medicine you'll need. He was the most behaved dog there while the others were barking at him and anything they saw my pup was sitting still behaved. People were scared of him though haha.

[Jules1618]

Signed, hope they reconsider it as its a crazy ban!!

[Little Wise Owl]

It is disappointing that the petition jumped from 5000 to 7500... It's slowing down now too.

I would love to have a Staffordshire Bull Terrier. This law makes me so mad.

[MikeM77]

Hope the ban is lifted. I had pits for about 5 years now. Best dogs I've ever had.

[Snakeman8]

I don't think that they should be banned, its not the dog that's evil, its the person that teaches the dog to be evil. no questions asked.
I signed it.

[moshirimon]

So any new info or updates about this?

[erichillkeast]

I got the following email about this about five days ago

I'm writing to thank you for your support of ending breed specific legislation in Ontario and for signing my petition to bring back my Bill to end it once and for all.

I fully understand that the legislative process in this Province can be confusing and I thought it might be helpful to explain to you the difficult place our Bill is in.

Last session in the Legislature, my Bill to repeal BSL, as you may remember, passed through first reading, second reading and a legislative committee. The only step left was for the Bill to be voted on one final time at third reading. Unfortunately, only the Government can call a Bill for third reading. It is a legislative power that only the Government possesses. When Premier McGuinty resigned and prorogued the Legislature last October, our Bill died in the process.

So, where does that leave us? Well, we're sort of between a rock and a hard place. Many of you have asked me why I simply don't reintroduce the Bill. The reality is that while I can and may still do just that, we will find ourselves stuck at the same roadblock if we take that path. Given the current minority parliament, we would probably be able to get a new Bill back through first reading, second reading and committee. Unfortunately, we would still be stuck waiting on the Government to call it for third reading.

So, what can we do to end BSL? The only way that we'll ever get the Liberals to call this Bill is for them to see just the outrage that everyday families have with BSL. They need to see that everyone is fed up with it.

This is where you can help me end BSL. With your help, over 6,800 people have signed my petition to recall my Bill to repeal BSL for third reading. That's a good start, but we need to reach out to as many people as possible. Please continue to share the petition and push it out to new people who also share our concern.

But that's not all we need to do. As I've been doing for the past two years, I've been making your concerns known through the halls of Queen's Park and trying to exercise every possible avenue for BSL's repeal. As well, I have been introducing petitions to repeal breed specific legislation and let our politicians know what you want.

I hope to have an exciting update for you in the near future and will keep you abreast of all developments on this important issue. Please continue to share our petition and tell your MPP what you think of BSL.

Together we will get this awful law repealed.


Randy Hillier, MPP
Randy Hillier, MPP - Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington

[Little Wise Owl]

I got the same email. The petition has sort of stopped growing ):

[DeadlyDesires]

i dont live in canada but i signed it anyway, i dont believe its the breed of animal there is every breed of animal out there that would attack you for different reasons, can't just label one breed. 1 week ago my 4 year old nephew was attacked by a pit bull that was on a leash and he had to undergo 3 hours of surgery to his face from the attack, just because this happened i dont hate all pits, thats stupid thats like saying if a white, black, mexican, or whatever race you are went out and killed someone you hate that whole race. it just doesn't happen like that, for some people, yes, but they are just stupid, there is bad in every race just like there is bad in every breed.

[Freebody]

I signed the ban, We had a pitter years ago, best dog we ever had, we loved him dearly and he loved us even more. As far as pitbull breeders/breed goes, here is my rant about BAD< breeders that lead to dirtying of the breeds name. Are dog was bread by some highly reputable dog breeder here in BC, they were also very well linked to the pitbull shows held here, well, these people breed dogs for show, but what we didn't know was they breed dogs to fight as well, and are dogs were an accidental breeding of one of there nasty fighting dog blood lines they had, and one of the show dog lines they had, it was a grand champion show dog, with a load of title for weight pull, at the time she even held the record for it, a simply amazing dog, we never met the father and now we know why..., and being how the mothers puppies were worth so freaking much, they sold them to families looking house pets that wanted to join the pitbull shows and show are dogs, which we did, we got one and my sister got one, so anyways, are dog were GREAT with us, as in people in general, well only when we introduced said people to are dog, every time he was around, but once you told are dog Its ok for him to be in are house, he went back to being like a massive puppy dog, but until then, he would not hesitate to rip anyone or anything apart on sight, this is the best we could do, that's only because we raised them very well, with lots of love and guidance and rules, and punishment if the laws were broken, as are dog would test us, but we never hit him, yell and scream and lock them up in a kennel for a few minutes 15/20min tops, dogs are not smart enough to realize after then why they are in this little kennel, that's what we would do, well one day I had no choice but to hit him one day, as he was hitting puberty/adult hood around 1 year or so, he decided he wanted to be the boss, as he was pushing the limits more and more, until one day he attacked my cat, so that day i punched him in the head as hard as i could and he dropped, then i jumped on him as he fell and I wrapped my arms and legs around him with him in a head lock with my arms,I held him upside down on his back,and put the squeeze on him as i yelled at him until he stopped fighting me and gave up, which took a few minutes, well it worked, and he learned right there real fast i was not going to take his **** no more... he was over 100 pounds and his head was 26" just so you know before anyone says anything about what i did, but it had to be done, he had just half way killed my cat in the kitchen, which he had been living peacefully with for the past 2 years, even as a puppy he would sleep with the cat a lot, he started getting really bad and doing what he wanted when he wanted, stopped listening to commands he used to, like come here, sit, laydown... nothing would work, no yelling or locking up was correcting his aggression toward everything, he started even stacking himself up when you yelled at him for not listening or when he was trying to claw his way through the window to rip your friends apart for entering the yard.... all up until that day, right after that day, he was the obedient dog he was as a puppy, but even then are dog as well as the one my sister took could not be trusted with children or other animals, specially not animals... IMHO its the Bad people that breed bad dogs, like this dog breeder, they didn't tell us that he had been breeding the nastiest of the nasty dogs that were bread to fight and did just that and only that, if the dog won enough to be retired, it was bread and the blood line is carried on, until you got what are dog came from, a blood line that breeds a dog that it instinctually a killer, then these assholes sell these dogs to a family looking for a loving house pet for $.... it was no easy task taming are puppies down and we had no idea why they were acting this way, we know how to train dogs and raise dogs and these dogs were so hard headed and would attack any animal it got close to, we raised them very well, after that day with my cat, he learned his lesson and started listening more and more and he went on to being the best dog i ever owned and i miss him very much, it was not until years later of taking are dogs to the dog shows, and got to know the pitbull community here, and eventually my brother inlaw was invited to the fighting side of it, which I think is so freeking sick to my stomach, I don't ever want to see these people again and we did just that...i was outraged!! quit going to the shows and everything, these freaks << this IMHO is why pitters get a bad name, you get these sick people breed dogs inherently dog bread to be vicious, and the will to fight to the death even enduring the most pain you can think of, and win... these dogs bread for fighting like this, need special care to keep them safe, and keep them tame, if they are then to be sold as house pets, its no ordinary pitbull puppy at this points, its a potential man made killing machine, and some unsuspecting people just don't have the experience to raise them, and one day... I believe its these pitters that you read about on the news, as well as the sick freaks that raise regular pitters from loving blood lines and turn a loving pitbull bad. that's my rant about these animals that breed these dogs for sick reasons and then release said puppies into the unsuspecting homes, and destroying the name of the best breed of dogs on the planet, the Pitbull. Im in no means talking about actually good breeders who breed regular pitbull lines and raise them in a loving home and sell puppies to good loving homes, only the ones like the breeder we got are dog from. If i had know the truth about my dog before we got him we would have never done business and never got my beloved dog, but im glad in the end I didn't, because i never would have had the privilege of getting to have those years in my life with him, I cant wait to buy another pitter, it will be a blue pitter with a blue nose RIP Cody.