Ontario Pitbull Ban – Pitbull protest at city hall

Posted on April 20, 2010
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TARA HAGAN
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The Observer

A group of dog owners set up camp at Sarnia’s city hall Monday to protest Ontario’s ban on pit bulls.

“Basically, it’s not right to be cruel to animals,” said Josh Atkinson, organizer and owner of Justice, a five-year-old pit bull.

“The City of Sarnia and a lot of other cities in Ontario are killing dogs for no apparent reason whatsoever, just because of the name pit bull. It’s ridiculous.”

A dozen people were on hand with their pets and homemade signs, reading: “Stop the killing of our pets,” “Pitbulls have rights, too,” and “Pitbulls are family.”
The group also planned to protest at the Sarnia and District Humane Society.

Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley said the demonstrators were barking up the wrong tree.

“It’s provincial legislation — not the city, or the humane society. They should be at the MPP’s office, he said.

“I don’t even agree with the legislation myself, but we have to enforce it.”

The 2005 Ontario Dog Owners Liability Act says any Staffordshire bull terriers, American Staffordshire terriers, American pit bull terriers and any dog that looks “substantially similar” is illegal, and only those already living in the province at the time of the ban are allowed.

Bradley said the law has been a stress on animal control workers, noting that he preferred the city’s previous ‘dangerous dog’ bylaw, which dealt with the animals on a case-by-case basis, rather than by breed.

Last year Sarnia made a pledge to consult an expert before putting any more dogs on death row. The move followed a number of confusing cases hinging on whether or not the dogs were pit bulls, or boxers, while officials admitted to euthanizing at least one dog every month, because of the ban.

“It’s very fuzzy legislation; the province passed it, but now they have no involvement in the law itself,” said Bradley. “In fact, I’d like to go join those protesters, myself.”

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2 Responses to “Ontario Pitbull Ban – Pitbull protest at city hall”

selwyn marock on April 21st, 2010 9:21 pm

As long as Murderous Scum like Mçguinty and his Lying Liberals remain in power,BSL will remain,they have turned this Evil and Heinous law into a Vote Catcher,aimed at the ” Stupid Masses” who with the help of the media have Brainwashed these people into beleiving this Garbage re the Pitbulls exactly the same principle used by Adolph Hitler and his neo-Nazi party in Germany in the late 30′s against the Jews.
If Animal-Lovers wish to rid Ontario of this act of Evil then they have to get off their butts and Vote Mçguinty and his neo-Nazi party out of power.End of Story.
smarock10@yahoo.com
Doug on July 30th, 2011 1:08 pm

Well I am very happy to know that pit-bulls are being killed…those dogs are very dangerous and owners don’t take full responiblity if the dog hurts someone. Human life is more important then a dog…a dog doesn’t work, or pay the bills or run the country. A dog does not create medical advances or help the poor, our human children do! Get off your animal loving a22′s and realize a dog should not have more rights then humans! A dog can be replaced. All pit-bulls should be banned. And furthermore, all owners should have licences to be a dog owner and not everyone who just wants one! there should be a 6 month course, and pay $$$ to have one, and testing done on that person, because there are soo many stupid dog owners, some peoples houses smell like dog shit when you walk in, they don’t feed their kids but care about the dog more than their own children make me sick!

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