I've been keeping up with that, and it's a great victory. More and more places with BSL, including Great Britain with its "Dangerous Dogs Act" that banned "pit bull types" completely, are dropping those laws because they have had time to find out how ineffective they are in preventing or even decreasing dog attacks. Severe dog attacks, those that result in serious injuries or death to people, have increased by a whopping 151 percent in Britain since the DDA was passed. Denver, Colorado, which has some of the strictest "pit bull" bans in the country, has seen a 15 percent increase in hospitalizations from dog attacks since the ban went into place, even though that city has killed over 7,000 "pit bull type" dogs simply for what they LOOKED like. BSL, in whatever form, simply does NOT work to make people safer!

On a downside, though, BSL is now being replaced with similar bans on "exotic" animals, which basically are any animals other than ordinary domestic dogs and cats. Reptiles, especially, are the "new pit bulls", targeted for erradication by fear mongers and the Animal Rights movement. As anti-dog laws are falling, laws banning other animals are increasing at an alarming rate, showing that the politicians really haven't learned much after all.

pitbulllady