[RP TownTalk] Dog Issue

[dlynch at garretroomstudios.com]

I seriously doubt a "radio columnist" wrote about biting dogs.

"New Team Named to `All Things Considered"

"Larry King's Zoo-Ha-Ha"

"Tom Joyner: On the Move"

"The Snow vs. the Show"

"Walt Starling Signs With WLTT-FM"

Is more appropriate.

Don

On 2013-01-13 20:57, Euniverz wrote:
> I couldn't tell if I sent this to the right email address, so this
> might be the second time it goes to the list...
>
>> In the 80s when I was a WashPost reporter in "PeeGee County," I had 
>> the
>> gruesome task of writing news articles about small children being 
>> bitten --
>> repeatedly -- by pit bulls. Have you ever had a conversation with a 
>> parent
>> whose small child has been malled by a dog? A number of children 
>> died, not
>> just in this county but all around this region. Vice President Biden
>> yesterday spoke of elementary children being "riddled with bullets." 
>> Well,
>> that is pretty-much what those assault weapon dogs do.
>
> "PeeGee County". Ouch. One of those thinly veiled euphemisms for the
> county when it was a scary, high crime, drug riddled place? Isn't 
> that
> the euphemism that one is practically forbidden to use "in polite
> company" around here? When used in the context quoted above, coupled
> with the (false) implication that children have died in this county 
> as
> a result of a particular breed of dog supposedly only owned by those
> bad "PeeGee County" residents, it is very easy to raise the 
> irrational
> fear level into the red zone. Unnecessarily.
>
> If one allows one's dog to do something bad and hurts someone, we
> already have laws that deal with that sort of thing, regardless of 
> the
> breed, and they're pretty good laws. The more topical questions are,
> for me at least, have you ever had a conversation with a dog owner
> whose dog was taken away simply because of what it looked like? 
> Simply
> because people with opinions think its ok to compare their benign
> family pet to an assault weapon? There is a kind of "-ism" that 
> people
> feel when they are unfairly vilified because of the dog they own,
> especially when that dog is an innocent, treasured family member. I
> have had those conversations with dog owners. Too often. Many times,
> after those dogs are seized and ultimately killed simply for looking 
> a
> certain way, those dog owners are never, ever the same.
>
> And seizing and killing innocent dogs has been proven to be
> ineffective in keeping the public safe. In this county particularly.
>
> I would never want to do that to my neighbor. I would hope my
> neighbor would never want to do that to me.
>
> Adrianne Lefkowitz,
> Madison Street
>
> Executive Director
> Maryland Dog Federation
>  marylanddogfederation at yahoo.com
>  www.marylanddogfederation.com [1]
>  Concerned friends of man's best friend
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://www.marylanddogfederation.com/
>
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