"It is both a safety and a cruelty issue.
There are 400 breeds. Can't people find something better?"

What I said in the interview was, "Can't people find a safer breed to love?"

MacLean's found AAS on the internet because of our high-profile, highly principled stand on dogs bred to attack. We don't believe they should be born to suffer, harm, and die after often-short lives. We don't believe that a civil society includes dogs bred to attack and kill. (The writer wanted to use our photos of the Presa Canario in a cage in Coquitlam, but the magazine decided not to because of the legality of using a photo not taken with the owner's permission. See photos of the Presa Canario and of a Vancouver Mastiff breeder at http://www.animaladvocates.com/dangerous-dogs/large-images.htm , and video at http://www.animaladvocates.com/video/presa-mastiff.htm)

Unlike animal charities, breeders, trainers, and dog behaviourists, who protect their incomes by not offending average uninformed dog-owners - their potential donators and clients - AAS believes that real love of dogs sees that these breeds are too big and too dangerous to rescue and rehabilitate (as is the fate now of most Pit Bulls) and that is anti-dog to defend the breeding and owning of them. All these defenders have the blood of all the Pit Bulls that die at pounds and SPCAs because no one wants them once they are dumped, as most inevitably are because of the kind of person who tends to own them. And they will have the blood of all the Cane Corsos, Bull Mastiffs, Presa Canarios, and other monster breeds that are already appearing in Vancouver, on their hands too, when SPCAs and pound have to start killing them too. It is the duty of pounds, such as the City of Vancouver Pound and SPCA pounds, to protect the public from dangerous dogs, and anyone who works at a pound and does not like to kill dogs, ought to be on the frontlines of the breed banning movement. They see which breeds get killed the most. And yet the SPCA officially denies that any one breed is more likely to attack and then to be killed by the SPCA (under paid contracts to kill dangerous dogs for municipalities).

No dog (or any animal) that is here should be killed as a "preventative" by anyone or any agency that claims to be animal-loving or animal-protecting. That is ruthless and unethical. But to defend more of these breeds being in our society is also unethical.

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