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Old 12-12-2005, 12:06 AM
fbkeays fbkeays is offline
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Re: Editorial in LA Times calling for BSL!!!

This is what I wrote. You need to put a period between her first and last names or it gets rejected.
I have owned rottweilers for 10 years. In those 10 years I have paid in excess of $800 in vet bills on my own dogs for damage inflicted by labs, goldens and the mixed of those breeds on unprovoked attacks on my dogs. The first time a chocolate lab attacked my first rottweiler was when she was just six months old. She carried the scars on her face for years. The lab was a certified SAR dog. My dog was on leash in a public park, the lab was not.
The first time my second rottweiler was attacked was when he was about 4 months old. I was walking him on leash, on the sidewalk. We just a few hundred feet from my house in an upper middle class neighborhood. A golden male escaped from his backyard and came charging at my puppy. He jumped on his back, with his teeth bared. I had to kick him and drag my puppy out from underneath this golden retriever to rescue him. Fortunately no serious physical damage to my dog.
My first rottweiler was in obedience class the first time she had to see a vet due to infected bites to her backside. We were doing recalls and the lab owner wasn't paying attention. I called my dog and this black lab took off after my girl and sunk her teeth into her. Then there was the black lab female raced across a parking lot to sink her teeth into my male's neck as he was looking for a place to pee before agility class. Fortunately there was a vet hospital a short distance away to clean out his wounds. I can no longer compete in obedience with him because he freezes when he sees unleashed dogs in the next ring. He thinks they are going to come and attack him.
So based on my personal experience it is the retriever family, specifically Labradors and goldens that are the dangerous, vicious, and unpredictable breeds. My rottweilers are highly titled in conformation, obedience, herding, tracking, and carting. They also regularly act as the neutral dog in CGC tests. They are an asset to the community. But you want my dogs to be muzzled, castrated and banned instead.
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