Dennis, I appreciate that your trying to figure out a solution to the problem, & I'm sure everyone else does too! Perhaps by hashing the subject out in a forum like this, a good answer will be found. We also have a few dog friendly beaches, (but they are few & far between). I think the officers here will also approach those with unruly dogs.

I have a question. I am in the military and they require that all dogs be microchipped and have strict rules to govern. Is there any way, WILL, to carry these over and require a microcip and some rules or lose your dog. I know other people would have to get involved to help govern. That way you could monitor dogs and their owners. I don't know. I have pit bulls and dread the day they are banned.

In all honesty, I think we have to fix society in order to fix this. The issue at hand is kids growing up w/o proper parenting, without proper dog knowledge (even if it's the most basic of dog behavior and how to behave around dogs to avoid bites), not enough education as a whole, etc. It's like with guns, solving gun problems doesn't start with tight gun control because that does nothing for keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, it starts with gun safety and education for ALL, starting from day one.

It was said before, and it bears repeating: the solution to the dog problem will only hinder those who are intelligent and responsible about keeping a dog. Wouldn't hurt to educate politicians that breed bans/BSL do nothing except become a band aid over an infected wound; out of sight, out of mind, until it festers out of control into a bigger problem.

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.....It was said before, and it bears repeating: the solution to the dog problem will only hinder those who are intelligent and responsible about keeping a dog. Wouldn't hurt to educate politicians that breed bans/BSL do nothing except become a band aid over an infected wound; out of sight, out of mind, until it festers out of control into a bigger problem.

Hear, hear. And, as Will Rambeau and others mentioned on a similar thread many months ago: Get active. Become an official who helps decide these issues. Go to local and city meetings. Involve ourselves in the groups that educate the public. It's amazing how easy it is to become involved in local decision-making.

****military and they require that all dogs be microchipped and have strict rules to govern. Is there any way, WILL, to carry these over and require a microcip and some rules or lose your dog. I know other people would have to get involved to help govern. That way you could monitor dogs and their owners.***

I have to say personnally I don't want my dog to be REQUIRED to be micochiped so the gov. can have even more control than then they already do. I am not the bad guy !
I have a mixed Pit that is will trained and I still am very careful with him around kids or other animals. Not that I believe he will get out of control, he has well proven himself, but that some kid or off lead dog will.

***I think we have to fix society in order to fix this. The issue at hand is kids growing up w/o proper parenting, without proper dog knowledge (even if it's the most basic of dog behavior and how to behave around dogs to avoid bites), not enough education as a whole, etc. It's like with guns, solving gun problems doesn't start with tight gun control because that does nothing for keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, it starts with gun safety and education for ALL, starting from day one.
I think we have to fix society in order to fix this. The issue at hand is kids growing up w/o proper parenting, without proper dog knowledge (even if it's the most basic of dog behavior and how to behave around dogs to avoid bites), not enough education as a whole, etc. It's like with guns, solving gun problems doesn't start with tight gun control because that does nothing for keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, it starts with gun safety and education for ALL, starting from day one.*****


I highlly agree with this, the crimianls will always be able to get the guns or the dogs to mistreat or misbread whether there are more laws for the good people or not. I dread the day the band any dog and the day they take Americans guns away because of the crimianls who kill with them. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Sorry Will I saw that one of those questions was to you. It rubs a very open nerve with me so I throw in IMO.

Hear Hear.

It bears repeating that this, like all other crime is a people problem; not a dog, or gun, or talking on the cell phone while driving, or whatever else problem. Whatever efforts are made to curb the problem will mostly impact lawful people doing things that are no menace to society.

I would implement a bounty on heads. $100 for the head of a biting dog. $500 if you bring the owners also. People committing violent crimes; well it costs $100,000 a year or so in incarcerate them; I say the reward for a head should be at least the expected cost of imprisonment.

Of course I am being facetious, but the answer will be found when people are expected to protect themselves and their neighbors as well as the can and supported and applauded when they do so. Get a stick, a baton, a cattle prod, a taser, pepper spray or a gun; whatever you think you can use effectivly, learn to use it and fight back!

"He who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserves neither" -- Benjamin Franklin