Breed Specific Laws

[Guest Anonymous]

Does anyone live in an area or nearby one that has breed specific laws? Any personal experiences...or know of any that friends or relatives had? Sashagirl lives in FL...any personal experiences???

[Guest Anonymous]

Ok I know I'm going to sound really stupid but what is a breed specific law?

[Guest Anonymous]

The law is created just for that breed or breeds on a list. Like in Florida, certain counties passed laws saying you can not own pit bulls, some say you can't breed them. Pits are being picked up and put down even if they never did anything wrong. The people of the county don't want certain breeds of dogs living there. Very common in Europe and Austrialia. They have lists of breeds that it is illegal to own and can not be brought into the country.

[Guest Anonymous]

[quote name='Nicki']Does anyone live in an area or nearby one that has breed specific laws? Any personal experiences...or know of any that friends or relatives had? Sashagirl lives in FL...any personal experiences???

In my state they enacted laws against the sale of wolf hybrids.
You can keep your pet, you can even breed your pet but you cannot give away or sell a wolf hybrid - if you get it you have it for life! if you breed it you keep ALL the pups for life! You cannot even give the animal to a shelter.
This was passed after two sibling wolf hybrids raised completely differently in different homes within the same week killed small children when they hit about 2 years of age.
It took a lot of work to keep the legislature from opting to vote to kill all the hybrids and let people keep their well behaved pets. This version seemed a fair compromise between the desire of the public to reduce risk and the desire of people with wolf mix pets to keep them.
We also have a dangerous dog law as outlined by the akc (check www.akc.org for fighting breed specific ordinance info) where dangerous dogs can be removed from owners and owners held responsible for them - its not breed oriented.