What is wrong with breed specific legislation?
Legislators think that by eliminating an entire breed of dog, all of the problems with dogs attacking people will go away and bring a “safe community” into the picture. This doesn’t work because it doesn’t take care of the root of the problem and studies have shown that it doesn’t even reduce the number of dog bites. Dogs that belong to irresponsible and mean people will almost always turn out to be an irresponsible and mean dog, regardless of the breed. therefore, BSL tends to “punish the BREED, not the DEED” and forces punishment onto thousands, possibly millions, of great dogs and owners along with the one or two bad dog(s) and owner(s). Another problem with BSL is that there are over 100 breeds of dogs that are popularly misidentified as a pit bull, one of which is a Fila. I have personally owned a Fila that came to my house as a stray and I took him in. His temperament wasn’t the best (I assume the previous owner was a dead beat), and everyone that saw him immediately asked, “Is t
