Reigning Cats and Dogs: Improving the odds

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Improving the odds

The lottery is up to thirteen million tonight, so odds are pretty good that most people remembered to get a ticket.
Its an even bigger gamble to be a homeless pet in this province ... but over in Cape Breton there are some young people trying hard to improve things ... at least in their corner of world.
This Saturday, the wonderful volunteers who have formed spca...adopt a dog ! will be bringing pets from the Cape Breton SPCA to the Mayflower Mall. They'll be there from 1:30 to 4:30 pm in the hopes that great dogs like Blackout and Rufusmagoo will have a shot at meeting someone who might adopt them.
There are no guarantees that the animals will all get adopted ... but like the lotto ... the odds are better when they are out in the public eye.
At the end of the day .... the winning lottery ticket wouldn't hold as much joy as the double barrelled satisfaction of saving a life while making a friend for life.

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BSL is NOT the Path to Public Safety because:

Many dogs are misidentified and consequently destroyed because of their apprearance
It is often difficult, even for experts, to determine the breed of a dog, particularly when considering mixed breed dogs
Breed -discrimination laws cause unintended hardship to responsible owners of friendly dogs who happen to fall within the regulated breed category
Breed -discriminatory laws compromise public safety by requiring officers to enforce regulations on dogs who may or may not be dangerous, instead of investing resources into proven, effective tactics that make the community safer
Every dog is an individual, with his or her own unique personality. A dog should be judged on temperment and not appearance.
The police and animal control will lose the public's trust by seizing and killing pets simply because of their appearance
Studies of pre and post-breed-ban dog bite rates in the United Kingdom and Spain concluded that their breed discriminatory laws had no effect whatsoever on reducing dog bites.
Italy recently revoked its breed restrictions, stating that the ban had no scientific justification.
Closer to home, Calgary has the lowest dog bite rates in 25 years without enacting breed discrimination.
Last but definitely not least, here in Nova Scotia it will create a conflict for any SPCA shelters who perform contractual work for animal control, given the SPCA official position of No Kill.