How scary is this???

A member of the D For Dog forum has posted this very scary link. It gives a list of 75 breeds of dog which are banned in some states of the US. It not only includes the usual suspects - Staffie, Mastiff, EBT (all of which are prone to whine and drop at your feet, paws in air, for a belly rub) - but also Fox Terrier, Airedale Terrier, Springer Spaniel, Newfoundland!!
Newfoundlands are bred to rescue humans, for goodness sake!! I've never heard of anyone being savaged by one - you're more likely to get accidentally sat on or drooled on... and as for the Fox and Airedale terriers - why them and not the JRT? Because they can be vicious too - I mean, yes at one end of the spectrum we have Mollie, who will just sit and look bemused as a small child attempts to pull her leg off, but at the other end there are JRTs who will bite you just because you looked at them funny. Or rather, because you looked at them at all. Or because you happened to walk somewhere within half a mile of them and your trouser leg looked tasty. And yes, I speak from personal experience here.
I'm sure my friend Helena will be mortified to learn that her dogs are banned in the parts of the US, possibly in the very states that she once lived in.
It's madness, utter madness - politicians scrambling to do something, anything to make it look like they've got control of the situation - a situation, incidentally which only exists in newspapers and on television. Wouldn't it be better to bring in compulsory dog licensing, chipping/tattooing and socialisation/obedience? Oh no, that would be a sensible thing to do, wouldn't it...

Dublin council evicting family pets

Dublin city council have decreed that all dogs belonging to 'dangerous' breeds which belong to council tenants must go...

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Anvil Ireland press release

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There is also a thread with sample letters and more information on D For Dog .

This is senseless, absolutely senseless discrimination against innocent dogs and their owners. Already there are family pets in overflowing pounds which are destined to be put to sleep because the council have decided all dogs of certain breeds are dangerous. Discrimination of this kind against humans would be condemned as racism and would basically equate to, for example,everyone from a particular ethnic minority being evicted because one or two had a violent history. Seems to me it's the council who should be evicted.