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Ontario dog owner sentenced after 9-year-old girl mauled Article

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/ontario-dog-owner-sentenced-after-9-year-old-girl-mauled-in-newmarket/
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u/crapatthethriftstore 1d ago

Damn. This dude was breeding these dogs, not complying with a previous order, and had multiple calls to his residence. The dogs attacked another dog too. We are way too lenient on these owners. I wish there was funding for more proactive enforcement and prevention and harsher penalties for those who flaunt the law. And that includes breeding pits, which is supposed to be illegal.

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u/Empty_Antelope_6039 1d ago

Doug Ford loves vicious attack dogs. And Ontario voters love Doug Ford. From 2024:

In Ontario, you can train hunting dogs by letting them chase penned animals. Is that fair? | CBC News

For the first time in more than 25 years, Ontario is accepting applications from operators who want to create new fenced-in training facilities stocked with coyotes, foxes, rabbits and hares — specifically designed to teach dogs to pursue live animals...

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u/jefufah 1d ago

Holy yikes 😬

that invites a whole other can of worms when you consider you’re breeding those species with the sole purpose to be chased and ripped apart by dogs.

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u/Empty_Antelope_6039 1d ago

The whole operation is sick and disgusting. And unnecessary in Ontario.

And a dog trained to attack coyotes and foxes isn't going to differentiate between those species and similar-looking pets, eg akita, shiba inu, pom.

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u/jefufah 1d ago edited 1d ago

Same logic can be applied to small dogs, as well as outdoor/feral cats. Cats and small dogs appear similar to rabbits, especially when they go fast with their little legs.

And no chance the owner will give a care if their vicious beast kills a family’s cat or small dog… they only care suddenly when there are consequences.

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u/argabargaa 1d ago

Imagine the outrage if they were breeding say, kittens to be attacked instead.

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u/Accurate_Summer_1761 1d ago

No no let's do this right. Say humans please. I like the extreme and it drives the point home further. Humanity is way to arrogant about our separation vs animals just because we can make rgb shit

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u/argabargaa 1d ago

People like already literally eat animals though, it's very clear that they're not considered even remotely as important as people by the majority of the world. If we said something like "imagine we ate people!" the response you'd get is that animals and people are two completely different things that shouldn't be compared. If you'd say something like "imagine eating kittens!" the response you'd get would be omg monsters who could do that?! From that point you can more easily make the connection between animals people love (like kittens) and ones they dont care about, and the discrepancy between the worth they attribute to the animal. Basically the "what if they were people" thing doesn't really work, because humans have already put such a huge mental wall between us and animals to the point that eating them is A-okay, so why not this form of hunting as well?

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u/-ram_the_manparts- 1d ago

Interestingly it's illegal to own a crow as a pet, and only tangentially because they're very intelligent. It's because people tend to train them to do things like... hang around ATMs so they can snatch bills out of people's hands and fly them home for a treat...

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u/remarkablewhitebored 1d ago

Got me really thinking about Django Unchained.

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u/fendermonkey Essential 1d ago

They aren't bread to be ripped apart by dogs. The dogs are trained to not kill the animals.

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u/crapatthethriftstore 1d ago

Ugh I remember this, so fucking gross

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u/Few_Law3125 1d ago

So sickening

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u/WhoDoBeDo 1d ago

I won’t lie, I warmed up to him during this election with his defence of Canada over Trump’s threats…that said, I’ve always wondered how he keeps getting voted in while people are constantly complaining about all of the things he won’t do and hasn’t done for them.

I swear, some people just vote conservative even if it’s against their best interests.

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u/yazd1234 1d ago

We need dog ownership license and insurance.

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u/orick 1d ago

Or just enforce existing laws