For two years and especially since the ruinous attack on youngster Shenica White, what will it take to make the people charged with protecting citizens regulate, restrict, or ban the owning of known breeds of dogs that are the most dangerous?

The City of Vancouver knows that it can't be sued, or surely Shenica White's lawyer would be suing it too, so it is smugly indifferent. And it has its "expert opinion" from two of Vancouver's leading dog behaviour experts who say that cocker spaniels are as big a problem as pit bulls and Rottweilers and that if one breed is regulated, all will be, which is cowardly, self-serving rot, known to be untrue, but which the City uses to hide behind. (See It’s a deadly mistake to think dangerous dogs can ever be pets http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/noframes/read/1980)

The SPCA protects its donations from uncomprehending dog-lovers by never telling the truth which it only knows too well - that a few breeds of dogs are much more dangerous and deadly than other breeds and that it kills a lot of these dogs which are frequently in their pounds because owners dump their dangerous dog and no one decent wants them. It continues to say, as it did yesterday again, that the problem is not certain breeds but bad owners. It is both, and both must be controlled.

Unless everyone stops lying about this and laws are enacted, the death of someone, probably a child, is a foregone conclusion. As Dr Moe Milstein of North Vancouver says, "Dobermans have given way to pit bulls, which in turn have been replaced by 50-kilogram Rottweilers that, now, are being challenged by 75-kilogram mastiffs". The AAS breeders database shows that protection dogs are being bred bigger and meaner all the time, and no one is doing anything to stop this. Until the SPCA admits that some breeds are much more likely to kill a child and should be regulated, everyone will hide behind the SPCA's position.