Nathan Winograd has a very sharply and bluntly written piece about shelters that kill based on breed.

Ginger was in a Toronto animal services kennel for three and a half years, accused of aggression after defending herself against an unprovoked attack by an off-leash dog. She was freed in early June after a judge determined that she had been held illegally for that entire time. Today, we find out if the city of Toronto will be allowed to appeal that decision.

Read more at http://www.chicobandido.com/2009/06/ginger-finally-free-or-continuing-saga

This was just posted on Facebook. Rallies in Toronto and Ottawa on Saturday June 20.

You’d think that, after the Michael Vick debacle, the so-called “Humane” Society of the United States might reconsider their blanket belief that all dogs seized from dogfighters should be killed. Well, apparently not!

I originally wrote this article on the two year anniversary of the Ontario legislation, so that’s about a year and a half ago. Considering our fundraising efforts to get to the Supreme Court of Canada, I think it’s appropriate to re-use it now to try to give you some idea of what life is like for many dog owners in Ontario.

How much is your dog worth? How much would you give to keep your dog as part of your family?

How about ONE DOLLAR?

The pit bull puppy in my earlier story Animal cruelty and the Ontario government is now on her way to be cremated. She died this morning at the vet’s office.

How the plight of one young dog highlights the inconsistency, bias, and danger of the Ontario “pit bull” ban.

Here is a reasonably intelligent commentary on “pit bulls”, albeit from an author who is admittedly biased toward this particular type of dog. Like myself, however, he wasn’t always that way.You can read his story at: http://www.indianapolismonthly.com/article.aspx?id=17766 In general, this is a well-articulated discussion of…

Caveat’s earlier article quoting from the Bill 132 clause-by-clause committee meeting encouraged me to go back and look at some of the data I collected during that time. Here’s a summary of what types of people presented at the four days of hearings and whether…