Posted by Mark - IN. on September 21, 2011 at 09:20:30 from (75.219.40.217):
In Reply to: Re: Dog leash law.OT posted by John T on September 21, 2011 at 08:01:22:
I agree 100%. Knee jerk reactions from politicians that "feel your pain" and need your vote.
They were going to try that leash law stuff where I live in Elkhart County, IN. a couple of years ago, and may have even banned pit bulls in the city limits of Elkhart, I don't recall. They had this thing about banning "dangerous breeds" going. Well, what is a dangerous breed per say? When I was a kid, it was german shepards, then dobermans, and then rotweilers. These days, its pitbulls. I asked them, the county board guys, "So my dogs drop a possum, coon, field rat from a grain bin, or whatever they caught, at the door as they have done, and that makes them a dangerous or vicious bred labradore or golden retriever working farm dog because some city slicker hears about or sees it?". That got others grumbling and asking the same questions, and backed them down...that time. But, if you don't grab the politicians by their throats and slap some sense into them, well, everyone knows that politicians have no common sense, or very few of them anyway.
True story from a couple of years ago: Michigan DNR released some pumas just over the state line in an attempt to control deer population. Those pumas were attacking livestock left and right, and as people reported seeing pumas, Michigan DNR kept denying that they existed. Flat out lied that they existed. A lady locally sent her small child out to the car to take her to elementry school, and the girl got in the car. The lady then went out and got into the car, happened to look up, and there on one of the lower tree limbs above her car, was one of the pumas. Either one of them could have been killed, especially the young daughter. I tracked one along a fence line on my property and luckily never caught up with it, or I probably would have gone to jail for shooting its microchipped rearend. Then a horse got mauled so bad, the owner had to shoot it to put it out of its misery. Michigan DNR said was a pack of wild dogs that climbed on that horse's back and mauled it like that. Someone pointed out the five claws in the maul pattern. Dogs only have four claws and a dew claw that is good for nothing but flopping around on their paws. Cats have a claw per toe on their front paws, and usually have five, less if lose a toe, more if have extra toes, which happens. Dogs do not have five working claws on any paw. Still, Michigan DNR kept saying "wild dogs"...until people started capturing the pumas on video. Then, and only then did Michigan DNR admit that they had turned the pumas lose in an artificially introduced attempt to control deer population.
Who knows? With deer season approaching in a couple of months, maybe this fella's DNR may know something about the attacks that like Michigan, they won't admit to, until you show them pictures of videos of their hands in the cookie jar.
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