Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) Links and Resources
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Best Friends BSL Fiscal Estimator
Over the last decade, the number of dogs in the United States has steadily increased to above 72 million total canines. As the dog population increases, there are bound to be more conflicts between human and canine, ranging from noise complaints to bites. For this reason, some sort of animal control is required in order to ensure safety to citizens and humane conditions for animals. While it is important that individual violent or uncontrollable dogs be removed from society, some jurisdictions are considering implementing breed-specific restrictions which indiscriminately target "pit bull type" dogs.
Breed discriminatory legislation is a misguided attempt to reduce the number of fatalities and injuries caused by dogs. Breed discriminatory legislation will not only exhaust the limited resources of the already underfunded animal control programs by flooding them with potentially "unadoptable" dogs; it could cost individual communities millions of dollars while providing questionable results fulfilling its purpose of preventing dog related injuries and fatalities. Read More: 5025.best friends methodology and write up.pdf
Animal Farm Foundation
Links to Stop BSL Difficulty of Breed Identification
Links to Stop BSL
Difficulty of Breed Identification