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Bandanas for Banned Breeds/End BSL

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http://www.darwindogs.org/site/pittie-parade-bandanas-for-banned-breeeds/

Darwin Dogs needs your help in order to spread awareness about unfair Breed Specific Laws/Legislation. We are proud to host the 2nd Annual “Bandanas for Banned Breeds-Pittie Parade” Sat. May 9th, 2015 at 10:00 am in the city of Lakewood, Ohio, but we need your help to make this important event happen!

What is BSL? Breed-specific legislation (BSL) is the blanket term for laws that either regulate or ban certain breeds of dogs from cities regardless of their individual temperament.

Darwin Dogs is committed to all dogs, including those unfairly discriminated against in Breed Specific Laws/Legislation (“BSL”). Pit bulls and bully breeds are a lovable group of dogs, and we hope everyone who wants to love and care for one will someday be able to legally do so in their city. The purpose of the Pittie Parade is to peacefully protest the BSL’s in specific cities. On

Saturday, May 9th we will walk across Lakewood, Ohio with our dogs, gaining signatures on petitions in opposition to BSL’s as we go. Well behaved dogs and their owners are encouraged to wear green bandanas or BSL Awareness Clothing in support of the Pittie Parade. Our walk will conclude at an ending location where, if funding permits, we will provide a friendly gathering
place for local animal shelters to come together, adopt out animals that are looking for homes, spread information about Breed Specific Legislation and information about how you can get involved to oppose these discriminatory laws.

However, our walk will not be successful unless we receive the financial support needed to responsibly promote an event of this size! There are many moving parts to putting on an awareness walk such as insurance, permits from the city, people to monitor the event, water for the dogs and their humans, advertising, print costs for materials, … the list goes on, but we know we can make it happen and give these owners and dogs a voice in a city that currently has BSL in place, with your generous help!

Please consider giving a contribution to show you oppose BSL and give a voice to the many dogs that don’t have one!

For more information visit: www.darwindogs.org/site/pittie-parade-bandanas-for-banned-breeeds

Why Oppose BSL?

- Other cities have tried it, and realized it doesn’t work.  In 1993 the Netherlands banned pit bulls, but lifted the ban in 2003 because it had not reduced the number of dog bites.

- Bans never take the place of education.  Has your dog been properly socialized? Trained? Neutered/Spayed? Kept indoors as part of the family?  Pittie owners, as with owners of any dog breed, benefit from education to safely add a dog to their family.

- BSL is expensive.  Best Friends Animal Society has put together a calculator explaining the true cost of BSL’s. It includes costs for enforcement, warehousing dogs, law suits, and euthanasia costs. BSL’s are not cost effective.  Wouldn’t you rather see your tax dollars going towards, say, schools than trying to determine if your grandma’s dog is a pittie, and if so, how best to wrest it from her?

- Number Needed to Treat, or “NNT”.  How many doges would have to be banned to prevent one bite?  Well, that number is explained beautifully in this article by Peace,
Love and Pitbulls.  In Colorado alone, we are looking at 100,000 dogs of a targeted breed being banned in order to prevent one dog bite.

For more reasons, read this link by StubbyDog.org.

Don’t let a good dog disappear!  #BandanasForBannedBreeds

Organizer

Kerry Stack
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Lakewood, OH

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