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Pit bull–type dog wearing a muzzle. In law, breed-specific legislation (BSL) is a type of law that prohibits or restricts particular breeds or types of dog. [1] Such laws range from outright bans on the possession of these dogs, to restrictions and conditions on ownership, and often establishes a legal presumption that such dogs are dangerous or vicious to prevent dog attacks.
Pit bull is an umbrella term for several types of dog believed to have descended from bull and terriers.In the United States, the term is usually considered to include the American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, American Bully, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and sometimes the American Bulldog, along with any crossbred dog that shares certain physical characteristics with these ...
A 2018 Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center literature review covering fifteen years of dog bites treated at the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and the University of Virginia Health System, with meta-analysis by breed, found that dog bites were most likely to come from the following breeds (in order of highest incidents): pit bull, mixed breed, German Shepherd ...
A Georgia man who ran an underground dogfighting ring with over 100 malnourished pit bull dogs has been handed a 475-year jail sentence.. Vincent Lemark Burrell, 57, was given the weighty sentence ...
Chris Culbertson, 46, was set upon by a group of pit bull dogs in Kansas City, Missouri on Saturday night, and suffered 300 bites, 100 lacerations, and needed 500 stitches, according to Fox4 News.
What should have been a fun play date took a tragic turn when a pet pit bull mauled and killed a 9-year-old girl in Long Island on Sunday, the New York Daily News reported. The little girl's ...
A 1992 case involving a dog named Dempsey, a pit bull terrier which three years later had its destruction order reversed, [42] [43] brought interest because of the lack of discretion that the Act gave magistrates regarding Section 1 dogs. Discretion was granted to magistrates with the 1997 amendment to the Act.
Every dog has an animal’s instincts that can turn violent under the wrong circumstances. Terrifying pit bull attack proof why Kennewick, others must reassess dangerous dogs | Opinion Skip to ...