We are not discounting anything and we are keeping an open mind about every place other than the desert. I can't live in the desert. Wyoming is certainly an option

I definitely will let you know what we find out.

All y'all need to come down here to Texas!!! We love our guns, dogs, and freedom! There's plenty of room too!
Alison Voore

love Texas..hate the heat.

but the recent pit bull idiocy here may have our legislators trying to legislate away certain breeds altogether...there's already a move here to ban pit bulls altogether.

I'm not a fan of pit's either, but good grief, don't punish me and my dog because someone else is a jack ass.

arghhhh!

from: http://www.lucydog.com/bsl.htm

Texas has a good generic dangerous dog law in the HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE CHAPTER 822. Texas is one of about 12 states that do not allow local governments to pass BSL. Click here and scroll down to CHAPTER 822 REGULATION OF ANIMALS: http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/hs.toc.htm

The Texas Municipal League, which is a lobbying group for local governments has on their legislative agenda a desire to change the Texas Health and Safety Code to allow breed-specific legislation at the local level. See the Texas Municipal League website for further updates. Interestingly, they seem to oppose "unfunded mandates" which is what BSL usually is. An unfunded mandate is a law that is imposed with no additional money to implement it.
What happened last session? (2005)March 2005, HB1096 and SB172 were introduced to allow Houston to have BSL. HB1096 passed before Texas dog owners could organize. However, SB172, the senate version of the bill, died in committee because of the many faxes, letters and phone calls Texas dog owners -- owners of all breeds, from all organizations -- made to our legislators.

in 2007. this bill is back as SB 349 and would allow Harris County / Houston to have BSL.

http://network.bestfriends.org/animallawcoalition/news/12523.html

Just in case you didn't know! Gotta stop that bsl!

they are definitely trying to do that here in the Houston area where I live!

We've had several pit maulings and deaths from pit attacks so of course, instead of addressing each situation and dog/owner individually, they go overboard in an attempt to look like they're doing something and try to ban breed specific animals.

One couple and a handler who were trying to adopt a pit bull were killed here in the Houston area awhile back. The husband was killed and the handler who was showing the dog was killed, the wife was seriously injured. Those types of attacks get national headlines, not just local or regional..and we've recently had another puppy farm incident where I think 200+ dogs including pit's were seriously neglected and many, many of those dogs became very dangerous.

Pits scare the crap out of me, but I know it's not the entire breed's fault that a handful make the news every week.

If lawmakers gave a rat's rectum about drug related deaths as they seemingly do about dog attacks maybe our southern borders would not be as porous!

There's got to be some reasonable, common-sense solutions to bad owners with untrained/mentally unfit dogs besides banning an entire breed, as the UK has done!

They tried to introduce BSL here but that ended up DOA. What they did pass was stiffer penalties with real sentencing for people not controling thier dogs. They just sent a crazy lady to prison when her at large APBT killed somebody. Along with vigorous inforcement of animal cruelty laws for the pitbull dog fighting rings

Sadly there's no safe place in this world from the PC craziness that's become pervasive today and has replaced most common sense.