EllenTaft comments

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Also read Jonah Spangenthal-Lee's article Pit-bullies in the Stranger.

Let's be really open about this. The pit bulls she wants banned are mostly owned by low -income, gang related, street thugs whose dogs are on rope leashes, no tags, and balls the size of cantaloupes. Black, Mexican, Hispanic,White trash, side hat wearing,l baggy shorts sporting, weed smoking section 8 folks are the ones who own these dogs. I bet almost all of the dog attacks are located in the neighborhoods that are low income. I don't hear of pit bull attacks in Magnolia, Shoreline, Queen Anne, Ballard. Let's say the ban get's put into place. Those same shitty dog owners won't follow it.

dog fighting breeds?????? last time i checked it was illegal to fight dogs, once again it falls back to horrible and completely unresponsable owners who are destroying this dog breed.. i say we ban bad owners and breeders. pitbulls brought up with responsable owners with proper training are some of the best dogs in the world. and while were at it we can ban all the naive people in the world to

@98 I think you should ban people who bite other people or who bite dogs.
@103 Ban trashy people, or at least people whose style and life style you find not to your taste. While you're at it, put teenagers with baggy pants into pens full of French poodles and let them get licked to death. To hear you tell it, people in Magnolia, Shoreline, Queen Anne, Ballard do not even use toilet paper when they potty they're so upper pure. Where do you people come from and how did you or your antecedents make it to Seattle?
You could devise a safety correctness test for Pit Bulls. Put one in a playpen with an unwanted baby and if it doesn't maul the baby, then he/she/it/whatever passes the test.

How about a new subject that double digit IQ folk can discuss - such as whether it is cruelty to animals to kill a slug or should it be relocated to Olympia.

I wanted to mention Ellen Taft was a parent at our preschool in the early 1990s and she used to push her anti-dog agenda back then. As parents, we wondered why she would try to press this personal issue at a preschool for kids! Because of her beligerency, she was avoided at all costs and eventually left the school because no one would talk to her after she tried to pit people against each other. She is certifiably nuts but with just enough smarts to fool a few misguided people. Best not to engage with her; she's attention-seeking and vicious (more than the pit bulls)

I wanted to mention Ellen Taft was a parent at our preschool in the early 1990s and she used to push her anti-dog agenda back then. As parents, we wondered why she would try to press this personal issue at a preschool for kids! Because of her beligerency, she was avoided at all costs and eventually left the school because no one would talk to her after she tried to pit people against each other. She is certifiably nuts but with just enough smarts to fool a few misguided people. Best not to engage with her; she's attention-seeking and vicious (more than the pit bulls)!

One has to ask, Has anybody tried to check Ellen Taft for Rabies? every time I am anyplace she could be I get worried, I hear she bites? and look at her actions and her head! she must have a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis, Pitt Bulls yeas, I avoid em, but hey, I am also avoiding Ellen Taft! Just saying!

I think this pit-bull ban has gone way too far. For all the idiots out there who feel they need to ban a specific type of dog from being in their city or state, is a bunch heartless animals themselves. I’m not sure how good any of your memories are but I remember a time when Rottweiler’s were considered to be the most aggressive or how about when Doberman’s were, I also remember when I was a child I witnessed a Chow bite a chunk out the back of a 5yr olds leg, and they were considered aggressive but did any of you idiots make a big deal about any of them? No, No you did not. Not ever has a certain breed of dog been looked down on as badly as the Pit-bull. As a pit-bull owner of 3 huge beautiful loving pits, who has 2 young children plus several nieces and nephews who are always over my house with my pit bulls who are house dogs, I strongly disagree with the discrimination towards pit bulls. my kids have crawled on them, sat on them, pulled their tails, took their bones when they are chewing on them and not once has Any of them been snipped at or attacked in any type of way by either of them. Pit-bulls are GREAT family dogs and they are awesome with children. I am a very strong believer in it is all about how you raise your dog, ANY dog no matter the breed. If you raise a dog to be aggressive well then yes you will have problems, but if you raise a dog with tender love and care and teach it right from wrong then you will have a great companion who will not only be good to you and whoever you introduce it to but it will also protect you. YOU are the only reason pits have been given such a bad rep. and now YOU don’t even want to take responsibility for your actions. People it’s time to stop blaming and punishing the dogs and start holding the owners responsible. How can you ban a dog when it’s the owner who has taught it to be that way? Step up and take responsibility instead of blaming those that only do as they were taught. In my opinion stop discriminating against a certain breed of dog because it is no different than discriminating against a certain race, or nationality.

when did we as a society start pushing our beliefs on people to such an extent that everyone must change to make one dumbass ingorant person feel comfortable. theres so much more going on in the world today to even think about this kind of petty shit. unemployment is reaching record highs theyre letting criminals out at an alarming rate and this dumb fuck is worried about pitbulls a dog that this fuck has probably never even owned.i am a pitbull owner i will not let some ignorant asshole take away my rights i fought for this country for 6 years and my rights are being taken away because some asshole has nothing better to do than whine about shit they know nothing about.my guns my dog what next. what will some dumb fuck think of that they dont like so i can give up more of my rights as an american. what happened to the days when people didnt like something so they stayed the fuck away and kept their mouth shut. i dont like all this fucking crying bullshit but damn i sure have to listen to it every time i walk my pitbull through the park. wheres the petition to make it against the law for people to fucking cry about stupid shit ill sign that one right now. my pit never hurt anything he plays with cats and other dogs kids and he has had zero problems. he has been bit by dogs and scratched by cats had is tail pulled and ears tugged on by kids. all he does is run to me crying like a baby and lays down behind me. never snapped back not once no growling. my family dog that i owned a golden retriever about took out my sons eye and for no reason my son was laying on the floor doing nothing.STOP INFRINGING ON MY RIGHTS SO TO MAKE YOURSELF HAPPIER.

Pit bulls are not naturally violent. The reason they become violent is because of the owner. The main reason people fear pit bulls most is because the pit bull (which, by the way, is actually up to 3 different kinds of dog and might as well be replaced by the word mutt) is very similar to humans. The breed is smart, and small but can accomplish a lot for its size due to its strength.

If you treat your pit bull well and love it, you will see a level of love returned to you that no other dog can equal. The dogs naturally love humans, and only a very very small number of them are violent, generally due to mistreatment.

If pit bulls are banned now, what breed is next? In Colorado for a long time, the most common dog bite came from a golden. Every dog can be a "fighting dog", it all depends on its history.

If you can't discriminate against people, you shouldn't be able to discriminate against dogs.

Anyone thinking about supporting this obsurd ban should see the fill "Beyond the Myth" on netflix now available to watch. You can see what these bans have done to dog owners and innocent dogs. This woman is doing nothing other than trying to instiute another round of senseless killing of innocent dogs because of her own hysteria. Bans of this sort and others that infringe on the rights of American citizens are becoming increasingly frequent, only to get someones face on TV or some sort of recognition for themselves. Hate against a breed is exactly the kind of thing that eventually culminates in hate toward a group of people, a political group and other such infringements. People need to wake up. In todays media culture it is the media that drives these fears for shock value and allows this precious breed to be killed by the thousands and allows those that abuse them for dog fighting to continue underground. WAKE UP!!! This women is a hater nothing more and I will fight tooth and nail to prevent a ban of any specific breed. Next it will be yorkies. Watch the film and get the facts, not hte myth and scare tactics. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Beyond…