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Organizations Fighting BSL

  • American Canine Foundation – is a non-profit organization founded to stop irresponsible dog ownership and abuse to canines. They protect dog owners rights and promote responsible dog ownership through education and legislation.
  • Animal Farm Foundation – is devoted to restoring the image of the American Pit Bull Terrier and to protect them from discrimination and cruelty.
  • ADOA (American Dog Owners Association) – the voice of responsible dog owners and member dog organizations from across the United States, advocating for the protection of the public health and safety, the protection of dogs and the right to own, keep and enjoy dogs.
  • National Canine Research Council – was formed to publish accurate, documented, reliable research to promote a better understanding of the human-canine bond.
  • Understand-a-bull – is devoted to fighting Breed Specific Legislation for all breeds targeted by BSL and to educate the public about pit bulls.
  • Animal Law Coalition - works to stop animal cruelty and suffering through legislation, administrative agency action, and litigation. ALC offers legal analysis of the difficult and controversial issues relating to animals.
  • DogWatch – is a source of information on breed specific legislation (BSL).
  • Stop BSL – a group who is dedicated to seeing the end of breed specific legislation.
  • Defending Dog – is dedicated to fighting against Breed Specific Legislation.
  • ROVERerlution- is a national dog owners’ advocacy group adamantly opposed to restrictive laws and policies that serve to prevent dog ownership on the basis of breed selection or size limitations.
  • AKC (American Kennel Club) – strongly opposes any legislation that determines a dog to be “dangerous” based on specific breeds or phenotypic classes of dogs.
  • CHAKO (Coalition of Human Advocates for K9s & Owners) – is a national Dog Owners’ Education and Advocacy Group and is for all dog owners. CHAKO holds public education events, offer CGC testing periodically, and battle laws that adversely impact responsible dog owners.
  • ENPA (National Board for Animal Protection) – is the main and the oldest protective association in Italy. Established in 1871 by Giuseppe Garibaldi, Enpa carries out its activities through all those sectors aimed to the safeguard and well being of animals.
  • The Pet Owners Parliament - concept was orginated by Ryan O’Meara. An ex-professional dog trainer and pet publisher.  The ideao for P.O.P came about after it became apparent that pet owners have no solid, genuine representation on major issues and decisions that are taken on behalf of pet owners in the UK. The aim is and always has been to hand back the influence to the people who deserve it most, pet owners themselves.
  • National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA) – an association of business, agricultural, scientific, and recreational interests dedicated to promoting animal welfare, supporting responsible animal use and strengthening the bond between humans and animals. Our members are pet owners, dog and cat clubs, obedience clubs and rescue groups as well as breeders, trainers, veterinarians, research scientists, farmers, fishermen, hunters and wildlife biologists.
  • Miami Coalition Against Breed Specific Legislation – was founded as a voice for the American Pit Bull Terrier breed and the many loving animals who have long been targeted and discriminated against. They are dedicated to removing the Breed Specific Legislation ordinance in Miami Dade County and throughout the country. Their purpose is to illustrate the true image of these victimized breeds and show the public their real nature. MCABSL promotes awareness, education and responsible ownership. We believe that they are the most important tools to help inspire a better understanding of these amazing companions. MCABSL was created in 2008 and now consists of over 300 members. Together we hope to show the entire world that a little bit of love and dedication can truly change each and every one of us.
  • NAIA Trust – a nonprofit 501 (c) 4 organization established under the Internal Revenue Code to promote responsible animal care and ownership and reasonable laws, policies and regulations to protect animals and the people who care for them.
  • Victims of BSL – is a website that is devoted to the victims of BSL in Australia.

BSL Articles/Sample Letters

Resources – printable

Organizations/Non Profits

  • Operation Opie – is an interactive program created by Great Dog to teach children about dog bite prevention. The Operation Opie team consists of Opie; a 9 year old rescued Jack Russell Terrier and his human companion, Judi Anderson-Wright, co-owner of Great Dog.
  • Project Canine – A non-profit organization, consists of a compilation of programs that provide solutions to urban living with canine companionship.  Project Canine endeavors to bring enrichment to our population dense communities through humane education, bite prevention programs for children and a therapy dog endorsement. Project Canine also embraces a program that certifies dogs to live harmoniously and respectfully with neighbors in supporting apartments, condos and alternative dwellings.  
  • For Pit’s Sake – was formed to provide safety and educational programs for children and adults, assist in emergency situations, and to brighten the lives of others. In order to dispel common myths and misconceptions regarding a very misunderstood breed, all the canines used in our programs are American Pit Bull Terriers.
  • Pinups for Pitbulls – Gorgeous women with equally gorgeous pits on a calendar so you can view both every single day of the year. Superb! These calendars are a must have and all proceeds go into supporting bully rescues.
  • LawDogsUSA – was created by Diane Jessup to provide law enforcement agencies with high quality narcotics, explosives, cadaver and arson detection dogs – free of charge.
  • Working Pit Bull – Diane Jessup is the author of The Working Pit Bull, The Dog Who Spoke With Gods, and co-author of Colby’s Book of the APBT. She created and runs the LawDogs program.
  • Project Pits – is a group that pairs together rescue pit bulls with youth offenders who obedience train and help prepare the dogs for adoption as family pets.
  • Reading with Rover – is a community based literacy program that uses dogs to assist children with reading difficulties.
  • Hello Bully – an advocacy and education group dedicated to repairing the reputation of the American Pit Bully Terrier and other bully breeds. Our Pit Bull 101 educational presentation is available at no cost for groups and organizations in the Pittsburgh area, and is now available on the web!

  • Canine Aggression Consulting - Consultant Jim Crosby – Canine aggression research, Expert dog attack and dog bite consulting and Dog bite prevention and safety.
  • AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC) – is a certification program that is designed to reward dogs who have good manners at home and in the community. The Canine Good Citizen Program is a two-part program that stresses responsible pet ownership for owners and basic good manners for dogs. All dogs who pass the 10-step CGC test may receive a certificate from the American Kennel Club.
  • American Temperament Testing Society (ATTS) – is a national not-for-profit organization for the promotion of uniform temperament evaluation of purebred and spayed/neutered mixed-breed dogs.
  • Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT) – is a professional organization of individual trainers who are committed to becoming better trainers through education.
  • Delta Society – is an organization that seeks to improve human health through service and therapy animals.
  • Therapy Dogs International – is a volunteer group organized to provide qualified handlers and their Therapy Dogs for visitations to institutions, facilities, and any other place where Therapy Dogs are needed.
  • D.A.W.G (Dog Advisory Work Group) – is a unique coalition of dog guardians and non-dog guardians, individuals and groups, private and public organizations, working together to help communities improve the overall coexistence of dogs, dog guardians and non-dog guardians. We celebrate and wish to add to the work of others.

Blogs about Dogs

Trainers

  • Seattle DogWorks – realizes that their clients are real people who live real, busy, and sometimes hectic lives. There approach takes a candid, realistic look at client needs to build a system of training that’s right for them. This approach does have a secondary element of obedience, but its primary focuses are manners and emotional soundness.  In other words, sit, stay, and lie down are great and are somewhat useful, but more relevant challenges are things like jumping on visitors, pulling on leash, surfing the counters, jumping on furniture when not invited, barking, bursting through the door, etc. The trainers at Seattle Dog Works frequently find themselves saying, “I don’t care if my dog can sit if he eats my turkey off the table!”
  • Seattle Humane Society – are committed to keeping people and pets together. To do so they offer a wide array of training courses and workshops. From Kitten Kindergarten and Pet First Aid to Advanced Dog Agility, we are sure to have something for you and your furry family member!
  • Shade’s Dog Training – Clear leadership plus positive motivation equals reliable obedience. “I strive to learn and implement POSITIVE ways of teaching, to be fair to our dogs, to base their learning on the relationship between us, and to use whatever treat, toy, or tug that motivates your individual dog. And best of all, it’s FUN!!”
  • RevolutionDog, LLC - offers private training at a time and location that is convenient for you. Using only humane training methods and the objective is to train your dog and address any behavioral issues, while also strengthening the human/canine bond.

Please search the CCPDT website for a list of qualified trainers in your area.

Recommended Reading

Karen Delise – The Pit Bull Placebo; The Media, Myths and Politics of Canine Aggression.

“Delise provides common-sense solutions for public safety and sheds light on current media bias involved in the reporting of dog attacks. A compelling and thorough analysis of reckless owners and dangerous dogs in America. A must-read for any public official concerned with increasing public safety” Ledy VanKavage, Senior Director of Legislation and Legal Training, ASPCA

Janis Bradley

Dogs are dangerous. And they are more dangerous to children than to adults. Not as dangerous of course, as kitchen utensils, drapery cords, five-gallon water buckets, horses, or cows. Not nearly as dangerous as playground equipment, swimming pools, skateboards, or bikes. And not remotely as dangerous as family, friends, guns, or cars. Here’s the reality. Dogs almost never kill people. A child is more likely to die choking on a marble or a balloon, and an adult is more likely to die in a bedroom slipper related accident. Your chances of being killed by a dog are roughly one in 18 million. The supposed epidemic numbers of dog bites splashed across the media are absurdly inflated by dubious research and by counting bites that don’t actually hurt anyone. Even when dogs do injure people, the vast majority of injuries are at the Band-Aid level. Dogs enhance the lives of millions more people than even the most inflated estimates of dog-bite victims. Search-and-rescue and cancer-detecting dogs save significant numbers of human lives, and assistance dogs enormously improve the quality of many more. Infants who live with dogs have fewer allergies. People with dogs have less cardiovascular disease, better heart attack survival, and fewer backaches, headaches, and flu symptoms. Petting your dog lowers stress and people who live with dogs just plain feel better than people who don’t. Yet lawmakers, litigators, and insurers press for less dog ownership. This must stop.