Here’s some further observations that I wanted to quickly address…
@1:55 Total fear-mongering.
@2:26 I love Erika’s followup question here, and Lisa Lange has nothing to say besides looking around for a bailout.
@2:52 Mandatory spay and neuter for certain types of dogs is only 1 facet of breed-discriminatory legislation. To most people it is the lowest on the totem pole in regards to what is intolerable about BSL. I’d disagree, and argue that mandatory sterilization laws targeting specific breeds or types is a long-game way of working around the current laws out there that prohibit the outright banning or singling out of those breeds or types. But Lisa knows full well that BSL is not just mandatory spay and neuter. Yet she rambles on and on and on about it without addressing the portions of BSL that outright ban breeds and types. Bans them simply based around the subjective visual decision of some chosen animal control god. She knows that there is no science behind this. She knows that it’s discrimination based around how a dog looks, having nothing to do with behavior. She knows that it perpetuates the negative stereotypes and myths, blanketly throwing millions of dogs under the bus. She knows that it leads to the relinquishment of animals in mass, and thus their killing in mass. She knows what BSL is, and knows that PETA supports all facets of it, yet just continues addressing spay and neuter while denying all else.
@3:55 If by when you say “reducing populations” you mean of certain types of dogs, after you ban and then kill them all, then potentially yes. As far as mandatory spay and neuter laws actually reducing the number of animals being killed in shelters, that is false. City after city where these laws have been put into place shows that they actually raise shelter intake numbers, and thus shelter kill numbers. PETA doesn’t care about how many animals are dying in shelters every year, as they pretty much kill the entirety of their own shelter in Norfolk. What they do care about is that hypothetically less and less domesticated dogs will be produced into our society.
@6:07 They are outnumbered??? This is a massive lie. And if the media and organizations like PETA wouldn’t constantly let these dogs down by erroneously impressing upon people’s psyches who don’t know any better that these dogs are all land-sharks and killers, well, then that number could exponentially expand even further.
@6:25 Mandatory home-checks? Given by whom? Government, animal control? They are both already horrendously terrible at their current jobs. Don’t rescue groups and responsible persons already take it upon themselves to often do this? Of course. And people are allowed to go to the shelter and not have to worry about being harassed by someone who wants to be a control-freak. This is such a ridiculous statement. And then she starts grandstanding about “all animal’s safety,” yet the home checks are only for the Pit Bulls! Lol. Well, if you care about the other dogs wouldn’t you require these home checks for them as well? See, this is all straw man stuff. It’s not about the welfare of the animals going into new homes. It’s about control and simply throwing another massively confusing, unenforceable hurdle in the way of every Pit Bull adoption.
@8:14 Low-cost spay/neuter clinics all over the city? No there’s not!
@8:55 The “oh shit” face.
@10:14 PETA supports all forms of breed-specific legislation, and often times those exact scenarios happen under the unjust laws that PETA helped usher in.
@11:08 See the document.
@11:33 See the document.
@13:44 No example.
@14:50 Uh oh!
@16:22 Candid shots are pretty interesting.
Finally, a few people that I talked to afterwards made comments to me about my tone and how it could have come off as intimidating or forceful. These were observations from respected friends, and I hear them and understand… But I’m not here to play games with these people. That woman represents an organization that wields a huge public relations stick and they want to literally kill my dogs. They want to kill every Pit Bull in every shelter. I meet these dogs, I love these dogs. They view my dogs as not dogs, but as somehow different from all other dogs. They make life more difficult for my dogs and for me, and for you and your dogs. They want to kill my future dogs, and my ability to have Pit Bulls 5, 10, 25 years from now. They do not have my respect. I have no desire to beat around the bush with them. I love what they do for other animals–a lot of the factory farm stuff, saving the laboratory monkeys and all the rest of it–but their head honchos are authoritarian psychos at the core and their Pit Bull and shelter reform stances undoubtedly prove it.
*Update*
Within an hour of posting this article and video I had this little exchange with someone running to defend PETA on Facebook. There are numerous reasons why I’m posting this, so first check it out and then I’ll explain…
Okay, so first just notice the irrationality of the initial comment. But as you go deeper you quickly see that this person’s reactionary tendencies mirror someone from the DogsBite.org-inspired crew. She quickly throws out the blanketed “dangerous breed” crap and then accuses me of not caring about dead children, insinuates that my dogs have actually hurt children and then blames me for “verbally attacking” victims and their family members. What? Worse still, if you go to her Facebook page SHE IS POSING AS A PRO-PIT BULL PERSON WHO IS IN ALL OF THESE RESCUE AND PIT BULL GROUPS ONLINE. These infiltrators are going hard. Pay attention to their moves. Lastly, isn’t it funny that these are the folks that are defending PETA? The anti-Pit Bull, anti-shelter reform, pro-killing, pro-exploitation and demonization of entire groups “crowd.” Speaks volumes. You can watch the full 90-minute video of the discussion here.