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Felix Conde, a Miami-Dade County resident, is a disabled person under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and should be accompanied by Lucky, his service animal, at all times. Lucky happens to be a pit bull type dog, who is trained to recognize when Mr. Conde is short of breath and to retrieve his rescue […]
By Robert Lochridge Anderson V, Former Marine Corps Captain The military has a unique relationship with its personnel and their families, and they have much more control than most institutions. The military and its commanders take very seriously their obligation to ensure the safety and military readiness of its service members and their families. […]
The United States is not the only place that has attempted, and failed, to solve its dangerous dog problems through breed discriminatory laws. Evidence that these policies do not make communities safer abounds throughout the world. A 1996 study in the United Kingdom examining the pattern of injuries at an Emergency Department before and after […]
The inability to visually identify dog breeds is one of the major factors that plays into breed discrimination. In jurisdictions with discriminatory policies, officers may take and even destroy a family’s dog for no other reason than the officer believing the dog matches a set of vague physical characteristics. Important to note is that a […]
“The hardest thing we have to do…is go to someone’s house, knock on their door, see their American Pit Bull Terrier laying in the living room watching television with the kids and the family… and tak[e] that dog away. A dog that has done nothing wrong, caused no problems, but just because of his breed […]
The City Council for Yakima, Washington has agreed to reconsider the city’s year old pit bull ban. Yakima is one of the largest cities in Eastern Washington; it is in the heart of the state’s wine country. But what tourists and even its own citizens may not realize is that hundreds of thousands of tourist […]