BSL (Breed Specific Legislation) fails to target the problem: bad dog owners
Beyond the Myth
A film about breed discrimination
Official release date: September 18th, 2012
Beyond the Myth is about dog breeds commonly referred to as”pit bulls” and those who love these breeds. Viewers are taken on a journey to four U.S. cities where Breed Specific Legislation focusing on “pit bulls” has profoundly impacted people and animals: Denver, Miami, Cincinnati, and San Francisco.
The documentary intelligently explores the contributing factors behind the public’s generalized fear of “pit bulls”, and examines the conflict existing between advocates and opponents of breed discriminatory laws, commonly referred to as breed bans.
It investigates the myths associated with these breeds, challenges the idea that they are inherently vicious, and presents eye-opening research regarding the media’s role in influencing people’s opinion on dog attacks.
What is a BSL?
BSL stands for Breed Specific Legislation. A BSL can be anything from requiring special licensing of a breed or breeds (breed restriction) to the total elimination of a breed (breed ban).
Why is BSL bad?
BSL fails to target the problem: bad dog owners. Those who are causing the problems with their dogs will not care about the law. Either these owners will continue to own the breeds mentioned in the BSL or dump the dogs, get a new breed and continue the cycle. Or, a restriction will make the breeds more attractive to those who get a feeling of power by intentionally breaking the law. Some owners are simply poorly educated and do not know what it takes to properly raise, train, socialize and manage any dog. Owners who are intentionally bad or owners who are undereducated and irresponsible are the problems that need to be addressed. Also, BSL are tough to enforce, expensive and often very vague with their descriptions and how to identify a dangerous dog.
Aren't the dogs mentioned in BSL dangerous?
Any dog can be a risk. Even small breeds have seriously injured and killed children. An American Pitbull Terrier in a good home is a safer dog than a Dachshund in a poor home. Humans decide how safe the individual dog will be. In the majority of dog problems, there is the owner to blame. The dog ends up as much of a victim in many respects. Is the dog to blame? No, he is just reflecting the owner. You can tell a lot about a person through his dogs.
If any dog can be dangerous, why are only certain breeds targeted?
These breeds are targeted because of a lack of education. Legislators and the general public do not take the time to learn the truth behind many breeds mentioned in BSL. Instead, they believe hype and information from undereducated and unreliable sources.
The people creating the most problem with dogs are:
- those using dogs as status symbols for the wrong reasons;
- under educated owners who do not realize the time it takes to properly raise any dog;
- those who unintentionally allow undesired behaviors to grow and fail to address them.
How many people let tiny pups play tug of war with their hands or feet? Are they aware that this actually teaches the pup it is good to bite humans when playing?
Children often unintentionally or intentionally do things that can lead to a bite: teasing, inappropriate play, trying to pat strange dogs, scaring dogs, etc.
It looks better for lawmakers to ban a breed than to target the true source of the problem with supposedly killer breeds: often young, unsupervised, poorly raised kids or the irresponsible adult looking for another status symbol to prove machismo.
There is little personal accountability any more. If something is being used for the bad, take it away from all as opposed to targeting the source of the bad – the human.
Let's make an analogy: as this is being written there is a lawsuit against fast food restaurants: they are being blamed for obesity. A person can find salads, juice and milk at these fast food places or choose a smaller burger, fries and drink. Yes, the employees try to sell super-sized stuff, but you do not have to buy it. A person can eat unhealthily at any restaurant from Beverly Hills to Boston. Yet only fast food places are being targeted. Where is personal accountability? What lawmaker will jump on the bandwagon and try to restrict fast food places and what they can serve? Can you make the analogy? Any dog can be a problem. It is the human that decides what the dog becomes – regardless of the breed. Personal accountability. Who is in control of the dog?
If it is the human causing the problem, why not target the owners?
That is what people opposed to BSL are trying to do: get legislators to address the root of the problem without punishing the good. But legislators are often poorly educated and/or use the wrong sources for their information. They go by what is printed in the media and not reality. It looks better in the eyes of the undereducated to blame the dog than the human.
What if a lawmaker states they can positively identify a dangerous breed?
Breed identification is tough. The descriptions lawmakers use to try and identify "dangerous breeds" are often vague:
(1) The XYZ is a strongly built, medium-sized, short-coupled dog possessing a sound, athletic, well-balanced conformation that enables it to function… Physical features and mental characteristics should denote a dog bred to perform as an efficient... The most distinguishing characteristics of the XYZ are its short, dense, weather resistant coat… a clean-cut head with broad back skull and moderate stop; powerful jaws…
(2) The ABC should give the impression of great strength for his size, a well put-together dog, muscular, but agile and graceful, keenly alive to his surroundings. He should be stocky, not long-legged or racy in outline. Head: Medium length, deep through, broad skull, very pronounced cheek muscles, distinct stop; and ears are set high. Muzzle: medium length, rounded on upper side to fall away abruptly below eyes. Jaws well defined.
What can I do to stop BSL?
When you hear of a BSL anywhere, start writing letters, faxes, phone calls, emails, etc. In a calm, rational and non-insulting manner, try to educate lawmakers about why BSL are not the way to go when addressing dog issues.
Push for laws that target the owner regardless of the type of dog owned. Encourage them to create leash laws and see they are enforced. Increase penalties for animal abuse, cruelty and the use of animals as weapons. In many communities it is a misdemeanor to neglect or abuse an animal. Lastly, encourage owners of breeds not mentioned to become involved with the fight.
The above text has been taken from the website of 'America against BSL'. For more information on the topic, please click here!
The dangerous effects of BSL and the vicious circle
Unfortunately, people who have been threatened or attacked by a dog of a socially-stereotyped “friendly” breed will chalk the incident up to a fluke, a singular incident, “nobody’s fault.” They do not speak out; they often do not seek retribution from the dog owner; they do not ask for stronger dog laws because they do not think that a law is necessary to deal with a fluke. People may sympathize with the victim, but they do not see the incident as something deserving special attention or action. It was “an accident.”
However, when someone is threatened or bitten by a socially-stereotyped “dangerous” breed, it is a much more emotional issue.The victim does not see it as a fluke, but as par for the course with this “dangerous” breed; the victim becomes angry that such dogs are allowed to exist and hurt people; the victim seeks retribution from the dog owner; the victim pushes for legislation to make people safer. Additionally, other people not only sympathize with the victim, but their own fears are magnified, and consequently, they, too, push for legislation.
This feeds a circle, or perhaps a spiral, wherein dog bites committed by stereotypically “friendly” breeds are generally disregarded or ignored by the general public, while dog bites committed by stereotypically “dangerous” breeds receive dramatic (and usually excessive) calls for some sort of political action.
Thus public safety is jeopardized by the passage of breed-specific legislation, which “saves” a minority of potential dog bite victims at the expense of the majority, and wrongly teaches people that only some types of dogs are dangerous.
What’s more, after the passage of breed-specific legislation, most jurisdictions simply move on to other issues; the dangerous dog problem is never revisited or reassessed.
Denver pats itself on the back because pit bull bites went down 77 percent (from 39 total to 9 total) over a three-year period from 2005 to 2007. To get this “success,” Denver killed 1,776 pit bulls, many of them pets. Meanwhile, non-pit bull bites went down only 10 percent (from 465 to 420)—and the decrease seems to be merely reflecting local trends in dog bite numbers, not any concerted public safety actions on Denver’s part.
Why isn’t Denver interested in protecting the vast majority of dog bite victims (400+ victims per year)? Because almost every dangerous dog conversation the city has ever held revolves around pit bulls and how the city is dealing with pit bulls. Nothing is being done about all those other victims, all those other preventable injuries, all those other mishandled dogs.
However, when someone is threatened or bitten by a socially-stereotyped “dangerous” breed, it is a much more emotional issue.The victim does not see it as a fluke, but as par for the course with this “dangerous” breed; the victim becomes angry that such dogs are allowed to exist and hurt people; the victim seeks retribution from the dog owner; the victim pushes for legislation to make people safer. Additionally, other people not only sympathize with the victim, but their own fears are magnified, and consequently, they, too, push for legislation.
This feeds a circle, or perhaps a spiral, wherein dog bites committed by stereotypically “friendly” breeds are generally disregarded or ignored by the general public, while dog bites committed by stereotypically “dangerous” breeds receive dramatic (and usually excessive) calls for some sort of political action.
Thus public safety is jeopardized by the passage of breed-specific legislation, which “saves” a minority of potential dog bite victims at the expense of the majority, and wrongly teaches people that only some types of dogs are dangerous.
What’s more, after the passage of breed-specific legislation, most jurisdictions simply move on to other issues; the dangerous dog problem is never revisited or reassessed.
Denver pats itself on the back because pit bull bites went down 77 percent (from 39 total to 9 total) over a three-year period from 2005 to 2007. To get this “success,” Denver killed 1,776 pit bulls, many of them pets. Meanwhile, non-pit bull bites went down only 10 percent (from 465 to 420)—and the decrease seems to be merely reflecting local trends in dog bite numbers, not any concerted public safety actions on Denver’s part.
Why isn’t Denver interested in protecting the vast majority of dog bite victims (400+ victims per year)? Because almost every dangerous dog conversation the city has ever held revolves around pit bulls and how the city is dealing with pit bulls. Nothing is being done about all those other victims, all those other preventable injuries, all those other mishandled dogs.
The real victims
In the end, who suffers when breed-specific legislation passes?
SOURCE: the previous two paragraphs have been sourced from 'STOP BSL.ORG' - to learn more about BSL, please click here.
- People who live next to non-targeted breeds that are being dangerously mismanaged by irresponsible owners
- People who have been bitten or attacked by non-targeted breeds
- People who don’t realize that any dog can inflict serious injury or kill
- Children, parents, the elderly, adults, and dog owners of all breeds
- In other words, everyone
SOURCE: the previous two paragraphs have been sourced from 'STOP BSL.ORG' - to learn more about BSL, please click here.
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by Yonah Ward Grossman
For generations if you had children and wanted to keep them safe you wanted a pit bull, the dog that was the most reliable of any breed with children or adults. The same dog is now vilified by a media that always wants a demon dog breed to frighten people and LHASA-APSO BITES MAN just doesn’t sell papers.
Before pit bulls it was Rottweilers, before Rottweilers it was Dobermans, and before them German Shepherds. Each breed in it’s order were deemed too vicious and unpredictable to be around people.
Each time people wanted laws to ban them. It is breathtakingly ironic that the spotlight has turned on the breed once the symbol of our country and our national babysitter.
In temperance tests (the equivalent of how many times your kid can poke your dog in the eye before he bites him) of all breeds the most tolerant was the Golden Retriever. The second most tolerant was the pit bull.
Pit Bull’s jaws do not lock, they do not have the most powerful bite among dogs (Rottweilers have that honor), they are naturally neither human or animal aggressive (in fact pit bull puppies prefer human company to their mother’s two weeks before all other dogs), and they feel as much pain as any other breed (accidentally step on one’s toe and you’ll see).
The most tolerant, patient, gentle breed of dogs is now embarrassingly portrayed as the most dangerous. It would be funny if the new reputation did not mean 6,000 are put to death every day, by far the highest number of any other breed euthanized.
For generations if you had children and wanted to keep them safe you wanted a pit bull, the dog that was the most reliable of any breed with children or adults. The same dog is now vilified by a media that always wants a demon dog breed to frighten people and LHASA-APSO BITES MAN just doesn’t sell papers.
Before pit bulls it was Rottweilers, before Rottweilers it was Dobermans, and before them German Shepherds. Each breed in it’s order were deemed too vicious and unpredictable to be around people.
Each time people wanted laws to ban them. It is breathtakingly ironic that the spotlight has turned on the breed once the symbol of our country and our national babysitter.
In temperance tests (the equivalent of how many times your kid can poke your dog in the eye before he bites him) of all breeds the most tolerant was the Golden Retriever. The second most tolerant was the pit bull.
Pit Bull’s jaws do not lock, they do not have the most powerful bite among dogs (Rottweilers have that honor), they are naturally neither human or animal aggressive (in fact pit bull puppies prefer human company to their mother’s two weeks before all other dogs), and they feel as much pain as any other breed (accidentally step on one’s toe and you’ll see).
The most tolerant, patient, gentle breed of dogs is now embarrassingly portrayed as the most dangerous. It would be funny if the new reputation did not mean 6,000 are put to death every day, by far the highest number of any other breed euthanized.
by Yonah Ward Grossman
There are few things quite as obnoxious as rich parents. Be it a $3000 stroller or Louis Vuitton diaper bags the well off don’t want their little angels to be seen with anything an average middle class rugrat might have, let alone a child who might be, gasp, POOR! So is it now, so ever has it been in America. EXCEPT FOR DOG BREEDS.
In America one dog breed historically became known as the dog for people who are afraid of dogs.
One dog breed became so trusted that despite the fact that no Kennel Club or Association recognized it, despite the fact that it could be found on the poorest farms and bleakest city neighborhoods with kids who didn’t know where their next meal was coming from, rich people acquired them in droves because they were simply the safest, most tolerant breed to have around their gilded progeny.
Rich, poor, and everything in between, until recently Americans agreed that there were only a CERTAIN TYPE of people who would own a Pit Bull…PEOPLE WHO LOVED THEIR CHILDREN.
America’s Dog is the victim of a smear campaign that has turned common sense upside-down and robbed us of our historical memory. The dogs that we trusted with our children’s lives are now deemed too vicious to live among us. The dogs that in two World Wars were the symbol of the United States military itself are now ordered off its bases.
The Pit Bulls haven’t changed at all. Only the owners have.
There are few things quite as obnoxious as rich parents. Be it a $3000 stroller or Louis Vuitton diaper bags the well off don’t want their little angels to be seen with anything an average middle class rugrat might have, let alone a child who might be, gasp, POOR! So is it now, so ever has it been in America. EXCEPT FOR DOG BREEDS.
In America one dog breed historically became known as the dog for people who are afraid of dogs.
One dog breed became so trusted that despite the fact that no Kennel Club or Association recognized it, despite the fact that it could be found on the poorest farms and bleakest city neighborhoods with kids who didn’t know where their next meal was coming from, rich people acquired them in droves because they were simply the safest, most tolerant breed to have around their gilded progeny.
Rich, poor, and everything in between, until recently Americans agreed that there were only a CERTAIN TYPE of people who would own a Pit Bull…PEOPLE WHO LOVED THEIR CHILDREN.
America’s Dog is the victim of a smear campaign that has turned common sense upside-down and robbed us of our historical memory. The dogs that we trusted with our children’s lives are now deemed too vicious to live among us. The dogs that in two World Wars were the symbol of the United States military itself are now ordered off its bases.
The Pit Bulls haven’t changed at all. Only the owners have.
…and one of the all time MOST ferocious pit bulls, Petey, with the Little Rascals.
The cruelest trick ever played on a breed of dog!
WHAT BREED OF DOG DID CORPORATE AMERICA BANK OWN AS THE SYMBOL OF FIDELITY, RELIABILITY, INTELLIGENCE AND UTTER HARMLESSNESS TO CHILDREN? PIT BULLS!
by Yonah Ward Grossman
Let’s pretend…
…that you’re the owner of a large, national company that makes only children’s shoes. No adult shoes. Just kid’s.
Unlike most other businesses, your customer profile is extremely narrow. Pretty much only kid’s Moms buy kid’s shoes. You’ve named your company after a cute seven year old boy and you want that little boy to have a dog. There’s nothing more wholesome than a boy and his dog, but which breed should it be?
You know dog breeds have different dispositions. German Shepherds, for example are vicious, unreliable, uncontrollable and a movement has been formed to ban them altogether. You know this because the newspaper told you so.
What you need is a dog universally known to be good with children. A dog that not even the most easily scared, overprotective mother in the country would fear might harm the boy he’s pictured next to on every box of shoes you produce and a dog she has no fear would harm her child should he encounter one. You need a dog that is loved by everyone and known as being the absolute safest with kids. The reputation of your company depends on it. What breed do you choose?
Let’s pretend…
…that you’re the owner of a large, national company that makes only children’s shoes. No adult shoes. Just kid’s.
Unlike most other businesses, your customer profile is extremely narrow. Pretty much only kid’s Moms buy kid’s shoes. You’ve named your company after a cute seven year old boy and you want that little boy to have a dog. There’s nothing more wholesome than a boy and his dog, but which breed should it be?
You know dog breeds have different dispositions. German Shepherds, for example are vicious, unreliable, uncontrollable and a movement has been formed to ban them altogether. You know this because the newspaper told you so.
What you need is a dog universally known to be good with children. A dog that not even the most easily scared, overprotective mother in the country would fear might harm the boy he’s pictured next to on every box of shoes you produce and a dog she has no fear would harm her child should he encounter one. You need a dog that is loved by everyone and known as being the absolute safest with kids. The reputation of your company depends on it. What breed do you choose?
…that you are a famous Hollywood director and you want to make a series of films about little scamps running about getting into all kinds of mischief. They need a dog to come along on their misadventures.
You’re going to need a smart dog that learns tricks quickly. Time is money. You need a dog that no one is afraid of. You’re shooting comedies. Most of all, you need an obedient dog that can work long hours in difficult conditions with a rotating cast of up to a dozen 5- 9-year-olds who will, as kids do, pull its tail, tug at its ears, and poke it in the eye at any given moment.
What would be best is if you could find a dog that had an obvious identifying mark, like a circle around it’s eye. That way you could use different dogs of the same breed by just painting the mark on any similar-looking dog that’s available.
You need a breed that will take all sorts of poking and prodding and not nip any of the nippers or your whole career could go right down the drain. The headline, “DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN LETS VICIOUS DOG ON SET” is haunting your dreams. What breed can you safely rely on?
You’re going to need a smart dog that learns tricks quickly. Time is money. You need a dog that no one is afraid of. You’re shooting comedies. Most of all, you need an obedient dog that can work long hours in difficult conditions with a rotating cast of up to a dozen 5- 9-year-olds who will, as kids do, pull its tail, tug at its ears, and poke it in the eye at any given moment.
What would be best is if you could find a dog that had an obvious identifying mark, like a circle around it’s eye. That way you could use different dogs of the same breed by just painting the mark on any similar-looking dog that’s available.
You need a breed that will take all sorts of poking and prodding and not nip any of the nippers or your whole career could go right down the drain. The headline, “DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN LETS VICIOUS DOG ON SET” is haunting your dreams. What breed can you safely rely on?
…that you are head of a large, cutting-edge corporation, producing the world’s finest audio equipment.
To show just how advanced you are, you want your trademark symbol to be a dog listening to what he believes is his owner’s voice coming from your product. Sound fidelity is what you’re selling so you want a breed identified by it’s fidelity. You also want it to represent intelligence, trustworthiness, and patriotism.
What you need is a dog that the whole country thinks of as “America’s Dog,” ever-faithful to his master’s voice. Which dog do people see as the country’s mascot?
To show just how advanced you are, you want your trademark symbol to be a dog listening to what he believes is his owner’s voice coming from your product. Sound fidelity is what you’re selling so you want a breed identified by it’s fidelity. You also want it to represent intelligence, trustworthiness, and patriotism.
What you need is a dog that the whole country thinks of as “America’s Dog,” ever-faithful to his master’s voice. Which dog do people see as the country’s mascot?
For over 100 years, Pit Bulls were “America’s Dog,” known for intelligence, faithfulness, sweetness of disposition and most of all, the quality they became renowned for, being the safest and most trustworthy dog with children.
This remarkably tolerant breed, once the country’s mascot and its canine babysitter, we are now told are vicious, uncontrollable monsters, so dangerous they need to be legislated against.
The dogs of course are exactly the same.
Only the owners have changed.
This remarkably tolerant breed, once the country’s mascot and its canine babysitter, we are now told are vicious, uncontrollable monsters, so dangerous they need to be legislated against.
The dogs of course are exactly the same.
Only the owners have changed.
Beside Wells Fargo, (top pic) here are a few more ads from a past, before media hype made us afraid of what was once the seventh most popular dog breed in America…
Back when people thought the number and the puppies were harmless, the 666 Iron Supplement Company used three pit bulls as the “666 Trio” with an iron-deprived baby conductor.
Vicious lemons, anyone?
Faithfully waiting for servicemen at rail stations on the Milwaukee Road
Knew how to have fun long before “Spuds” McKenzie!
Breeds don't make bad dogs. People do!
"Pit Bull" label often wrong, DNA testing shows
One of the many reasons that breed specific legislation is a ridiculous idea (the first being that there is absolutely no statistical evidence that pit bulls are more dangerous than any other dog, in fact, they regularly test among the most tolerant breeds on earth) is that without a genetic history, most people, even experts, can’t tell what a pit bull even is!
As the following chart shows, Lucas County Ohio dog wardens couldn’t get it right. Neither can your local ASPCA, meaning literally hundreds of thousands of dogs that have NO pit bull in them whatsoever are euthanized each year because they are mistakenly identified as pit bulls.
On this chart, Wyckliffe, the only dog that’s mostly pit, looks less like a pit bull than the other five, three of which have no pit bull in them at all.
As the following chart shows, Lucas County Ohio dog wardens couldn’t get it right. Neither can your local ASPCA, meaning literally hundreds of thousands of dogs that have NO pit bull in them whatsoever are euthanized each year because they are mistakenly identified as pit bulls.
On this chart, Wyckliffe, the only dog that’s mostly pit, looks less like a pit bull than the other five, three of which have no pit bull in them at all.
It’s time we stop this pernicious legislation. Because pitbulls are NOT inherently more dangerous than other breeds. Because bad owners will just replace pit bulls with other large breed dogs and make them monsters. Because unless you know the breeding history you can't even be sure which dogs are Pit Bulls!
If the experts can’t tell, how can the legislatures.
Punish the deed, not the breed, and leave my poor dog alone!
Yonah Ward Grossman
If the experts can’t tell, how can the legislatures.
Punish the deed, not the breed, and leave my poor dog alone!
Yonah Ward Grossman
If you think BSL can't ever effect you and your dog...
Check this list of 75 restricted breeds!
By DogLover
If you have a dog other than a Pitbull, Doberman, or Rottweiler you probably think your safe from Breed Specific Legislation but you still may not be safe. Breed specific legislation is growing in government popularity and regularly spreading to breeds that are considered much more docile or harmless. Many of the breeds on this list I honestly wouldn’t be afraid of even if they did want to attack and kill me, after all I think I can take on a Pug.
This list was taken from the Responsible Dog Owners Of The Western States (RDOWS). The list is a collection of all dog that have been banned or restricted in the United States.
Is your dog breed on this list, there is a reasonably good chance that it is. Media is the real cause of this panic: newspapers, television, radio reports generate public opinion. People eat media and media is happy to feed them all they want. Take this example: A person reads a headline on the paper: “Golden Retriever Attacks Child”, well that’s all they usually read and they get instant mental perception that Golden Retrievers eat children, this one did and regardless of any other circumstances that’s what all Golden Retrievers must do. Even if they read the rest of the article it likely wouldn’t give a good representation of the actual situation: how the dog was raised, kept, or trained, what the child was doing or where the child was. I’m not saying that dogs should attack children and that’s ok, I’m saying that people ignore the actual cause most of the time and just blame the breed, not the individual dog or owner but the breed.
Breed Specific Legislation works different in different places. In some areas the breeds are just outright banned and restricted from ownership, when found they are taken and euthanized and owners are penalized. In other places the owners are forced to have their dogs sterilized, forced to have specialized (and often expensive) insurance, or forced to only keep dogs of a certain breed within weight restrictions.
List of 75 Banned or Restricted Dogs
1. AIREDALE TERRIER
2. AKBASH
3. AKITA
4. ALAPAHA BLUE BLOOD BULLDOG
5. ALASKAN MALAMUTE
6. ALSATIAN SHEPHERD
7. AMERICAN BULLDOG
8. AMERICAN HUSKY
9. AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER
10. AMERICAN STAFFORDSHIRE TERRIER
11. AMERICAN WOLFDOG
12. ANATOLIAN SHEPHERD
13. ARIKARA DOG
14. AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG
15. AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD
16. BELGIAN MALINOIS
17. BELGIAN SHEEPDOG
18. BELGIAN TURVUREN
19. BLUE HEELER
20. BOERBUL
21. BORZOI
22. BOSTON TERRIER
23. BOUVIER DES FLANDRES
24. BOXER
25. BULLDOG
26. BULL TERRIER
27. BULL MASTIFF
28. CANE CORSO
29. CATAHOULA LEOPARD DOG
30. CAUCASIAN SHEPHERD
31. CHINESE SHAR PEI
32. CHOW-CHOW
33. COLORADO DOG
34. DOBERMAN PINSCHER
35. DOGO DE ARGENTINO
36. DOGUE DE BORDEAUX
37. ENGLISH MASTIFFS
38. ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIEL
39. ESKIMO DOG
40. ESTRELA MOUNTAIN DOG
41. FILA BRASILIERO
42. FOX TERRIER
43. FRENCH BULLDOG
44. GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG
45. GOLDEN RETRIEVER
46. GREENLAND HUSKY
47. GREAT DANE
48. GREAT PYRANEES
49. ITALIAN MASTIFF
50. KANGAL DOG
51. KEESHOND
52. KOMONDOR
53. KOTEZEBUE HUSKY
54. KUVAZ
55. LABRADOR RETRIEVER
56. LEONBERGER
57. MASTIFF
58. NEOPOLITAN MASTIFF
59. NEWFOUNDLAND
60. OTTERHOUND
61. PRESA DE CANARIO
62. PRESA DE MALLORQUIN
63. PUG
64. ROTTWEILER
65. SAARLOOS WOLFHOND
66. SAINT BERNARD
67. SAMOYED
68. SCOTTISH DEERHOUND
69. SIBERIAN HUSKY
70. SPANISH MASTIFF
71. STAFFORDSHIRE BULL TERRIER
72. TIMBER SHEPHERD
73. TOSA INU
74. TUNDRA SHEPHERD
75. WOLF SPITZ
That’s kind of a scary list.
Please do your own part to speak against ANY AND ALL breed specific legislation in your local area.
Keep informed in your city or state and register and vote against any such legislation. Even if you don’t feel it affects you or your dog's breed, it may just be the catalyst that will lead to more laws that will. Source
