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DEFENDER RADIO INTERVIEW WITH DR KAREN OVERALL AND MONTREAL SPCA

My friend Michael at Furbearers.com interviewed Dr Karen Overall and Montréal SPCA in June, when that city's descent into inhumanity began

You can listen at this link.

Enjoy!

THIS IS WHAT A TRUE EXPERT HAS TO SAY ABOUT BSL, BREEDS AND BEHAVIOUR

For your interest, I am posting the affidavit by Dr Karen Overall from the case against Denver by Dias et al.

Dr Overall is an accomplished person on many fronts but her expertise in canine behaviour and genetics is unparalleled.  She also writes in a compelling and clear manner, so is fun to read.

It's unfortunate that  most lawmakers who target dogs and their owners appear to know absolutely nothing about them.   They don't understand what breed means, how behaviour is conditioned, what is and is not heritable and so much more.  Everyone can't know everything, but that's what experts are for - to inform legislators so they don't inadvertently become a bigger threat to public safety than the bugaboos they purport to control.

As MPP Cheri di Novo (Parkdale-High Park) said the other day when we were at Queen's Park, BSL is like climate change.  Over 99% of all experts agree that climate change is real, and that we can do something to arrest it.  Over 99% of all experts agree that BSL is a complete failure and that there are better ways to create a culture of responsibility.  But media and others, including dishonest legislators, can always find someone, somewhere who will tell them what they want to hear, justifying their confirmation bias and making it look as though they are 'listening to both sides'.  With BSL, there is no other side, it's a loser no matter how you look at it.

These people are playing with other people's lives and should all be ashamed of themselves for trying to get ahead by inflicting tyranny on innocent people.

Anyway, enjoy the affidavit, it's a thing of beauty.

Dr Karen Overall on BSL

AMSTAFF CLUB OF CANADA RELEASES REGISTRATION NUMBERS FOR QUEBEC!

Our friends at the American Staffordshire Terrier Club of Canada have prepared a note for media and other interested parties around the situation in Montreal showing CKC registration numbers for their breed as well as Staffordshire Bull terriers in the province of Quebec. 

It has been prepared in English and French.

Enjoy!

 

GREAT SNAKES, MAKE IT STOP

 

 

Humans have one friend.

 

They have one friend on this lonely planet.

 

One friend has stood by us through good and bad, through fat times and lean, through the heat and the cold, the wet and the dry. One friend has consoled us, worked with us, fed us, clothed us, watched over our flocks, played with our children, guarded our homes, gone to war with us, died for us. One friend has been with us since we came up from the savannahs of so long ago, since we lived in the caves of prehistoric Europe and Asia.

 

We are a friend to nobody.

 

Why don't we stand by our friend as he has stood by us instead of using him as a scapegoat, treating him like a pariah, tossing him to the howling mob?

 

Why are we allowing the forces of ignorance to prevail?

 

Make them leave the dogs and the people who are wise enough to love them alone. Stop letting inadequate bureaucrats get away with their class warfare, their politics of division, their desperate bids for attention, their sneaky end-runs around the constitution.

 

Us and them. Codswallop. It's only us.  It's always been only us.

 

Stop turning away and hoping that if you keep your head down, they won't notice you. They will. They have. It's happening. They are killing dogs because they like to kill and dogs are easy game. They are snatching beloved family pets because they like to hurt and bully and this is a no-brainer.  They are taking away the liberty you are so complacent about right before your eyes as they feed you a line about 'public safety'.

 

It's a con.  It is you. It is now. There is no 'bad owner', no 'dangerous breed', no 'illegal dog', no 'pit bull'.

 

It's only you. Us. That's all it's ever been, and all it ever will be.

 

Is this how you want to live, in a supposedly tolerant, inclusive country like Canada?  Because if it is, then there's not much hope for anywhere else.

 

Just make it stop; make them leave the dogs and the people who are wise enough to love them alone.

Do something.

Do it today.

Make a phone call, send an email, show up at a protest, stand up  Your only friend would do it for you if he could.

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