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Californian law change means pet shops can sell only rescued animals
California is set to become the first state in the US to ban the sale of non-rescue animals in pet shops.
The new law, known as AB 485, takes effect on 1 January. Any businesses violating it face a $500 (£400) fine.
The change means cats, dogs and rabbits sold by retailers cannot be sourced from breeders, only from animal shelters.
Animal rights groups have heralded it as a step forward against so-called "kitten factories" and "puppy mills".
Previously: California Commercial Pet Breeding Law Passed, Signed
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 01 2019, @08:30AM
I don't understand where you are coming from, really. Let us begin with the fact that dogs are carnivores - or more accurately, carnivorous scavengers. They kill to live, naturally. They are well equipped for the task. The most loved, the tamest, the best behaved dogs will resort to killing, if they are hungry. That is true of all dogs, big, small, or whatever.
These particular dogs, pit bulls, were intentionally bred to be fighters. They originated in stock that was used to bait bulls, primarily, and the best fighters were bred, and bred, and bred again, to select for the most aggressive animals, with the physical characteristics needed to devastate their opponents. The dogs are superb killers amongst killers. You might even say that the breeding program was designed to produce a vicious animal, that wouldn't back down from anything, including man.
You want to talk numbers? Click on the link. Pit bulls make up roughly 3% of the dog population in the United States. Yet, those pit bulls account for 66% of all dog related human fatalities. You don't need any more than a third grade education to make sense of the numbers. Keeping a pit bull as a family pet is perhaps not quite suicidal, but it certainly is stupid. Criminally stupid, in fact.
All other dogs give some kind of warning that they might attack - barking, lowering the ears, growling, hunkering down to lunge, and more. (actually, almost all dogs will go out of their way to avoid a potential confrontation with a human) These pit bulls have been intentionally bred to give no sign of impending attack. Click the link provided, there is an account of an "expert" who went to investigate a pit bull. The damned dog actually wagged, and whined at the expert, to LURE the man within reach. That's right - display submissive behaviour, to lure the victim within reach. When the unsuspecting victim steps just close enough, lunge for the throat! Consequently, you never know if or when the dog will attack. He will strike when you are least expecting it, taking you totally unawares, and he will destroy you with that strike.
As I say, the dogs are superb killers. If you need a man killing dog for self-defense or defense of a junk yard or some such, or if you need a military service dog, by all means get a pit bull. But, don't be surprised if that killer one day gets tired of you, and eats your throat out. If you INSIST on keeping the animal as a family pet, be prepared to bury your loved ones.
I've always lived rather dangerously. Some might call me careless, in view of all the things I've done. But, I draw the line at the pit bulls. I won't have one on the property, and I'll kill any stray that comes by that looks very much like a pit bull. It doesn't even have to actually BE a pit bull. If it looks much like one, I'll put it down just to be sure. Of course, all of the stock breeds from which the pit bull was bred are fighting dogs anyway, all of them potentially dangerous. Each and every one of them are more dangerous than German Shepards. The Pit is the distillation of all of the killing instinct of each and every one of those other fighting breeds.
If I may borrow a phrase from generations long gone, "The only good Pit Bull is a dead Pit Bull."
To use your car analogy, you would have to have hundreds of different makes and models of cars. Each of them is more or less safe, but one of those makes stands out as "unsafe at any speed". Ralph Nader singled out the Corvair as being especially dangerous. You see no more Corvairs on the road today - they basically shut the company down.