martes, 7 de febrero de 2012

DOS DECADAS DE SER INLEGAL EL PITBULL NO PRODUCEN RESULTADOS POSITIVOS EN MIAMI DADE DEMOSTRANDO QUE NO SON LOS PITBULL LOS CAUSANTES DE TODAS LAS MORDEDURAS .

En 1989, el Condado Miami-Dade aprobó una ordenanza que prohíbe desde el condado de todos los "pit bull" los perros. El condado afirmó que "los perros Pit Bull" eran diferentes de losotros perros, que en las lesiones icted diferentes de las lesiones que una persona puede sufrir de otro perro, y que plantean un peligro mayor que los otros perros. El condado afirmó que la prohibición sería mantener a la comunidad más segura al reducir el número de incidentes graves relacionados con los perros.

1. El condado afirmó que la prohibición se mantendrá la comunidad más segura mediante la

reducción de el número de incidentes graves la participación de los perros .

2. La prohibición de Miami-Dade ha reducido el número de mordeduras de perro ?

3. Ha evitado graves relacionados con elperro de un bocado lesiones? Ha eliminado la mordedura de perro muertes relacionadas con el ?

El número de mordeduras de perros registradas:

No hay evidencia de que las ciudades o condados, incluyendoMiami-Dade, que han promulgado prohibiciones o restriccionesde raza han tenido una mayor reducción en el número de picaduras reportados que las ciudades o condados sinprohibiciones ni restricciones de raza.

De los informes financieros de los departamentos de salud y los organismos de control de animales en todo el país muestran queel número de mordeduras de perro se ha desplomado a mínimos históricos, a pesar del aumento signi cativo, tanto en lo humano y de la población canina. Prácticamente todas las áreas de la nación han sido testigos de una dramática reducción en el número de mordeduras de perros registradas en los últimos 35 + años (1971-2007). Por ejemplo, Minneapolis, Nueva York y Baltimore, ciudades que nunca han promulgado la legislaciónraza espe c, han experimentado una drástica reducción en el número de mordeduras de perros registradas.

1. Minneapolis muestra una reducción del 86%, pasando de 1.692a 239.

2. Nueva York tiene una reducción del 90%, pasando de37.488 a 3.776.

3. Baltimore ha visto una reducción del 91%, de6.809 a 593.

Miami-Dade ha hecho se dio cuenta de una disminución menor en el número de mordeduras de perros registradas de Control de Animales de Miami-Dade - de casi 6.000 picadurasreportados en 1979, a 992 en 2007. Esta disminución, de un%poco más de 80, está en el extremo inferior de la tendencia nacional. Además, la mayor parte de este descenso se produjoantes de la prohibición fue promulgada. Entre 1979 y 1988,mordeduras de perros registradas de Control de Animales de Miami-Dade se redujo de casi 6.000 a menos de 2600.

¿Qué pasa con severas mordeduras de perro relacionadas conlas lesiones ?

La prohibición de Miami-Dade raza no ha hecho de Miami-Dademás segura que el resto del estado.
Al promulgar la prohibición en 1989, Miami-Dade, sostuvo que "pit bull" perros causan lesiones más graves que otros
los perros, y prometió que la prohibición de "pit bull" los perrosse reducen las lesiones graves por los perros. Esta promesa no se ha cumplido. El porcentaje de Miami-Dade, los incidentes de mordeduras de perro que resultan en la
la víctima ha de ser hospitalizado sigue siendo superior a la tasapara el Estado en su conjunto. En 1998, diez años después dela prohibición de la raza había sido promulgada, la población del condado era de 14% de la población total de la Florida, sin embargo, tenía el 18% del hospital de la mordedura de perro -nizaciones. En 2007, la población de Miami-Dade fue del 13%de la población total de la Florida, pero tenía el 16% de las hospitalizaciones del Estado víctima de la mordedura de perro.Miami-Dade
es el único condado de la Florida con una prohibición de la raza.

Fatalidades:

Con respecto a la mordedura de perro en las muertes relacionadas con Miami-Dade, la prohibición es irrelevante.
Mordedura de perro muertes relacionadas con el son y han sido siempre, infinitamente raro.

En las últimas 4 décadas sólo ha habido dos mordeduras de perro relacionadas con las muertes en Miami-Dade, uno antes de la prohibición de "pit bull" los perros, en 1972, y el otro en 2006. Ni el incidente involucró a un "pit bull" perro.

¿Puede Miami-Dade, identificar a los perros que está tratando de prohibir ?

No.

En marzo de este año, una audiencia del condado de ciertosdictaminó que la prohibición de Miami-Dade en "pit bull" perrosera demasiado vaga para ser ejecutada en contra de un perro llamado Apolo. De hecho, un abogado familiarizado con el casoinformaron de que no está claro cuáles son los criterios que el condado está utilizando para determinar si un perro es ser clasi cada como un "pit bull" perro, y por lo tanto prohibida por la ley.

"La prohibición de Miami-Dade de la raza Pitbull no ha hecho de Miami-Dade más segura que el resto del " Estado"

¿Qué pueden los ciudadanos de Miami-Dade busca - barrio para con respecto a su prohibición de la raza?

Miami-Dade pueden esperar aún más los gastos y los procedimientos judiciales, si deciden continuar con la defensa de la prohibición, sin disminución apreciable de las mordeduras de perro, seria o no, en comparación con el resto del estado.
Respetuosos de la ley los ciudadanos siguen viviendo en el temor de que su mascota de la familia pueden ser objeto de la prohibición.
Propietarios abusivos, AWS SCOF y delincuentes seguiránfuera de la ley, y para obtener lo que sea perro que desea.http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/uploaded_files/tinymce/miami_fnl[1].pdf

ORIGINS OF DOG TYPES

Dog type

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For a list of dog types, see List of dog types.

Cart dogs, c. 1900. Different in appearance but doing the same work.

Dog types are broad categories of dogs based on function,^[1] with dogs identified primarily by specific function or style of work rather than by lineage or appearance.

In contrast, modern dog breeds are particular breed standards,^{[note 1]} ^[2] sharing a common set of heritable characteristics,^[3] determined by the kennel club that recognizes the breed.

Dog types include ancestral forms (or landraces) that arose undocumented over a long period of time.

A dog type can be referred to broadly, as in Bird dog, or more specifically, as in Spaniel. Dogs raised and trained for a specific working ability rather than appearance may not closely resemble other dogs doing the same work, or any of the dogs of the analogous breed group of purebred dogs.^[4For the history of the dog, see Dog, Origin of the domestic dog, and Ancient dog breeds[edit]

Origins of dog types

With the beginnings of agriculture, approximately 12,000 years ago, humans began making use of dogs in various ways. Molecular biologist and founder of the Canine Genome Project Elaine Ostrander comments, "When we became an agricultural society, what we needed dogs for changed enormously, and a further and irrevocable division [between dogs and wolves] occurred at that point."^[5] There is a great deal of speculation about the early uses of dogs, but recent genetic analysis shows that the earliest ancestors of modern breeds (those with the least genetic divergence from the ancestral wolf) include lap dog types (Pekingese, Shih Tzu) along with hunting dog and working dogtypes.^{[note 2]}

[edit]Dog type names in English

The earliest books in the English language to mention numbers of dog types are from the "Cynegetica" (hunting literature), namely The Art of Venery 1327 by the Anglo-French Master of game, Twiti (Twici),^[6] a treatise which describes hunting with the limer (a leashed bloodhound type), the pack of running hounds (scent hounds) greyhounds, and alaunts. More significantly in recording the use and description of various dog types, The Master of Game circa 1406 by Edward of York ^[7] [1] a treatise which describes dogs and their work, such as the alaunt, greyhound, pack scent hounds, spaniel and mastiff used by the privileged and wealthy for hunting purposes. "The Master of Game" is a combination of the earlier Art of Venery and the famous French hunting treatise Livre de Chasse by Phébus (Gaston Phoebus) circa 1387[2]. The Boke of St. Albans, published in 1486^[8][3] a "school" book about hawking, hunting, fishing, and heraldry, attributed to Juliana Berners (Barnes), lists dogs of the time mainly by function: " First there is a greyhound, a bastard, a mongrel, a mastiff, a limer, a spaniel,raches (small-to-medium sized scenthounds),kennets (small hunting dogs), terriers, butcher's hounds, dung-heap dogs, trundel tails(lapdogs?) and prick-eared curs, and small ladies puppies that bear away the fleas and diverse small sorts".

Almost 100 years later, another book in English, De Canibus Britannicus by the author/physician John Caius, translated (Fleming) from Latin in 1576 [4], attempts the first systematic approach to defining different types of dogs in various categories, demonstrating an apparent increase in types, and population. "English dogs": the gentle (i.e. well-bred) kind, serving game - harriers, terriers, bloodhounds, gazehounds, greyhounds, limers, tumblers and stealers; "the homely kind"; "the currish kind", toys. "Fowling dogs" - setters and spaniels. As well as the pastoral or shepherd types, mastiffs or bandogs, and various village dogs. Sub-types describing the function of dogs in each group were also included.^{[note 4]}

In 1758, Carl Linnaeus in Systema naturae named the domestic dog “familiaris” and added other dog classifications or species. More dog types were described as species by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788, and by Robert Kerr in his English translation of Systema naturae (The Animal Kingdom) in 1792.^{[note 5]} Today the species Linnaeus named are identifiable as dog types, not species or subspecies. Some, such as Canis aegyptius, a hairless dog type of Peru, have been documented and registered as breeds (Peruvian Hairless Dog). There are only two categories (subspecies) of domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris and C. l. dingo, recognized by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN Code).^[9]

Beginning with the advent of dog shows in the mid-19th century in England, dog fanciers established stud books and began refining breeds from the various types of dogs in use.^[10]

[edit]Dog types and modern breeds

"It is important," remind Ann Rogers Clark and Andrew Brace, "Not to claim great age for breeds, though it is quite legitimate to claim considerable antiquity for types of dogs."^[11] The attempts to classify dogs into different 'species' show that dog types could be quite distinctive, from the 'Canis melitaeus' of lapdogs descended from ancient Roman pet dogs to the even more ancient 'Canis molossus', the Molossan types, to the 'Canis saultor', the dancing mongrel of beggars. These types were uniform enough to appear to have been selectively bred, but as Raymond Coppinger wrote, "Natural processes can produce, could produce, and do produce populations of unusual and uniform dogs, that is, dogs with a distinctive conformation."^[12] The human manipulation was very indirect. In a very few cases, Emperors or monasteries or wealthy hunters might maintain lines of special dogs, from which we have today Pekingese, St. Bernards, and foxhounds.

At the beginning of the 19th century there were only a few dogs identified as breeds, but when dog fighting was outlawed in England in 1835, a new sport of dog showing began. Along with this sport came rules and written records and closed stud books. Some of the old types no longer needed for work (such as the wolfhound) were remade and kept from extinction as show dogs, and other old types were refined into many new breeds. Sometimes multiple new breeds might be born in the same littler of puppies.^[13] In 1873 only 40 breeds and varieties were known;^[14] today there are many hundreds of breeds, some 400 are recognized by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale.

Dog types today are recognized in the names of Group or Section categories of dog breed registries.^{[note 6]} But dog types have not disappeared. Types of feral dogs are being discovered and registered as breeds, as with the New Guinea Singing Dog and Carolina Dog. Types re-emerge from mixes of breeds, like the Longdogs from Lurchers and Greyhounds. Named types of dogs that are not dog breeds are still being used where function or use is more important than appearance, especially for herding or hunting, as with the herding dog types of New Zealand that are described by their exact function (Heading Dog, Huntaway, Stopping Dog, etc. - functional terms, not necessarily breed names).^[15]

[edit]Other uses of the word type in dogs

For biologists, a type fixes a name to a taxon. Dog fanciers use the term breed type in the sense of “qualities (as of bodily contour and carriage) that are felt to indicate excellence in members of a group”.^[16] Breed type is specific to each dog breed’s written standard. A dog that closely resembles the appearance laid out in the standard is said to be typey.^[17] Type also is used to refer to "dogs of a well established line",^[18] an identifiable style of dog within the breed type, usually from a specific kennel.

[edit]See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_type

lunes, 30 de enero de 2012

SE SUICIDA LUEGO DE QUE MATARAN SU PITBULL EN NEW YORK CON EUTANACIA EL ACTOR NICK SANTINO POR SER INLEGAL SU PITBULL NO BSL Y LAW 158

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/doggone_shame_1a9XYW8u9ZLlqwRJTa6jrN

Soap actor commits suicide after pup's 'forced' euthanasia

By JOSH SAUL

Last Updated: 9:32 AM, January 28, 2012

Posted: 1:40 AM, January 28, 2012

EXCLUSIVE

A down-on-his-luck soap-opera actor took his own life this week after he was forced to put his beloved dog to sleep under pressure from his Upper West Side condo and became wracked by grief, pals said.

Nick Santino euthanized his dog, Rocco, Tuesday — on Santino’s 47th birthday. That night, his guilt over the gut-wrenching decision became too much to bear.

“Today I betrayed my best friend and put down my best friend,” a despondent Santino wrote in a suicide note, said close friend Stuart Sarnoff.

“Rocco trusted me and I failed him. He didn’t deserve this.”

HOUNDED TO DEATH: After putting down his beloved pit pull Rocco amid pressure from his condo, Nick Santino took his own life.

The Brooklyn-born Santino — a struggling actor whose TV credits include “All My Children” and “Guiding Light” — adopted Rocco from a shelter several years ago.

The man, raised in an orphanage and foster homes, soon began to write about his pet on Facebook, writing, “I did not rescue Rocco, Rocco rescued me.”

But in 2010, his building at 1 Lincoln Plaza announced strict new dog regulations, including a ban on pit bulls. The ban didn’t apply to pit bulls already in the building, but friends and neighbors said Santino began to be harassed.

“People were complaining about his dog,” said neighbor Kevan Cleary, 63, an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School. “It was open season on him.”

Rocco couldn’t ride in the main elevators and wasn’t allowed to be left in the apartment alone for more than nine hours.

Santino was then threatened with a $250 fine for having a barking dog, neighbors said.

“The dog was not a barker, but somebody complained that the dog would bark,” Cleary said.

“He felt like he was in this battle because he was the only guy in the building with a pit-bull mix,” Cleary added.

Another neighbor, Lia Pettigrew, who runs a pet-care company, said, “Everybody knows that he had been harassed by the building management.”

The building’s management refused to comment yesterday.

After months of increasing anguish, Santino had the healthy dog put to sleep Tuesday.

Neighbors said a tearful Santino brought dog treats to the building’s doorman and said: “Give these to the other dogs. Rocco is no more.”

Dog owner James Steven Grant said Santino left two rawhide bones on his doorstep and earlier was seen tearfully giving away Rocco’s fluffy bed.

“Rocco was the sweetest dog in the world. Rocco wouldn’t hurt a fly,” Grant said.

A veterinarian told Santino that Rocco was becoming aggressive — and Santino blamed it on his own depression.

He spent Tuesday in agony over what he had done to Rocco.

“He was distraught and remorseful about putting down his best friend,” Cleary said.

The last phone call he made was to a former girlfriend at 2 a.m. Wednesday. Later that day, police found his body in his bedroom. He had overdosed on pills.

Rocco has been cremated, and friends said Santino’s remains will be, too, and they will be reunited.

“One way or another, their ashes will be together forever,” Sarnoff said.

Additional reporting by Aaron Feis, Jamie Schram and Andy Soltis

jsaul@nypost.com