Animal Advocates will shortly again be urging all municipalities to adopt laws to regulate the breeding and keeping of protection/fighting breed dogs. We will ask that these dogs be regulated in the following ways:

1. The breeding must be regulated: (See below for some local breeders of highly dangerous dogs):
All breeders must be licensed and inspected. Business licence fees for breeding must reflect the cost to society in enforcement, impoundment and disposal. The expense of dog control is almost 100% for large breeds and especially for the breeds that are currently the most dangerous to society: Protection and fighting breeds (see list below). Business licences to breed these breeds must be very high, as high as $1000 a litter. Breeders of less inherently dangerous dogs and small dogs must also be licenced and inspected to discourage the huge underground backyard breeding industry.

2. Licensing of all dogs must be strictly enforced:
Dog owners should be paying for dog control, not everyone. The licence fee must be very high for all protection/fighting breeds to discourage the owning of the breeds that do the most harm and cost the most to control. All fees should reflect the weight of the dog as weight is one of the factors that makes a dog potentially more dangerous. Fees for protection/fighting breeds should be as high as $1000 a year.

3. Prohibit the keeping of all dogs in states that make them dangerous:
Expert opinion shows that any dog can be made dangerous through the process of isolation. Prohibit dogs from being kept loose in yards, chained in yards, in pens, in garages, on porches and on decks - in all forms of social isolation. (See expert opinion at http://www.animaladvocates.com/It'sTime-research-safety.htm)

4. Prohibit the guard dog industry: large breed dogs, primarily Rottweilers and German Shepherds are left in business yards overnight. These dogs are trained to attack if they have no one to stop them. They are made dangerous through training and isolation in cells and put into yards at night with no supervision. (For AAS's investigation into the biggest player in the guard dog industry in BC, see http://www.animaladvocates.com/guard-dog-business.htm)