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http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Ottawa/Earl_McRae/2005/03/02/946800.html

Wed, March 2, 2005


No more bull from banned brutes

By EARL McRAE -- For the Ottawa Sun

The administration of Premier Dilton "One Term" McDoily finally did something right: Bye-bye pit bulls.

It won't be enough to guarantee One Term a second term, but it might get him a few more votes in the next election from those who escaped being eaten alive by pit bulls that, as all but the insane know, are an animal with a loose screw in their heads of life-threatening intentions.

Bruce Springsteen should pay good riddance to these nasty creatures in a new song, Born To Bite , but of course the mourning pit bull lovers today are sticking to their tired refrain that it's not the dogs that are droolingly nuts, it's those cement heads in the owner population who, being nuts themselves, train the beasts to be chomping, salivating, intimidating, maiming, killing machines.

Personally, I believe anyone who buys a pit bull -- even those owners who look and seem harmlessly normal, even loving -- are closet oddballs with psychological disorders, otherwise why would they want as a pet a pit bull that, through reputation, is a loose and scary cannon?

The only reason people buy a certain breed dog is looks and disposition, and the pit bull is never going to win a beauty contest or Mr./Ms. Congeniality.

Pit bull owners in their black armbands today whine, "ya but, ya but, ya but pit bulls don't top the list of Most Bitingest Dog" which is like saying there were more fighters who threw more punches against opponents than Mike Tyson, which is true, except that Mike Tyson, whose head was a whole toolbox of loose screws, caused more terrible damage with his fewer punches.

Tyson could seem like a pussycat out of the ring, but don't forget he's also the guy who said his merciless mission in the ring was "to drive a man's nose through his brain."

One attack from a pit bull and its unsurpassably powerful jaws and death is a high possibility.

As for those who howl the irresponsible owners, not the dogs, should be targeted by the law, no problem, I'm for all of that as well so as they won't transfer their mental and emotional temperaments, satisfied through their pit bulls, to something else dangerous to society.

Enforced spaying, neutering, and muzzling of them, too, is fine by me.

Actually, pit bull owners should take solace that their banned brutes haven't all been sentenced to immediate death, which is what I would have done -- pit bull genocide -- the way all those mad cows were dispatched to the Great Beyond to keep us safe and healthy.

The owners still get to keep their pit bulls until they (the dogs) die of natural causes or are put to eternal sleep, and then no more, but until then all that's being demanded is that they (the dogs) are (a) muzzled in public, (b) spayed, (c) neutered, and how bad is that?

If I were a pit bull, with its proclivities for machismo and intimidation, I'd think it's kind of cool to be seen strutting around muzzled like Hannibal Lecter, my unique and defining signature. It could be worse. If I were a horse, a donkey, a goat, a cow, a swine, a chicken, a duck, or a goose, I'd be banned from living in the residential city, period.

And, pit bull owners, if you really care about your little darlings as you say you do, then consider the following from the City of Ottawa website on its animal bylaws, information from experts.

Spayed female dogs won't get horny anymore and annoy you with their whining and crying and nervous pacing, and you don't have to worry about horny male dogs jumping them ever again, and it prevents diseases of the uterus and ovaries, and skin disorders, and reduces the risk of breast cancer.

Neutered male dogs won't be going around marking their territory with smelly pee, and it prevents prostate disease and some other cancers, and it cuts the chances of them wandering away from home, looking for some hot action.

The Spay/Neuter Clinic: 1851 Merivale Rd., open Monday to Thursday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., phone for appointment: 613-798-8970.

I know you're feeling better already, and -- lick, snuggle -- good for you.

I'd love to hear from you.
Phone: (613) 739-5133, ext. 469
Email: earl.mcrae@ott.sunpub.com
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Good Grief! I don't even know what to think......... let's start with the mike tyson comparison. Tyson does what he does with rational thought. Dogs don't. Mad Cow disease has a definite cause from without (a virus). Dogs are not a disease to get rid of. How can anyone call this journalism??

OMG!!! That jerk makes bob MacDonald look like a loveable old man.

SUPPORT FELLOW PET OWNERS :

Cancel All Subscriptions to ALL SUN NEWSPAPERS

Regardless of which breed you own we need to send a message to every PRO BAN "person" everywhere...to keep their narrow minded, uninformed opinions hidden.

When you write to the SUN tell them why......EARL MCRAE and his column of hate, & fear mongering.:yuck: :mad: :yuck: :mad: :yuck:

Thanks

Amy

I have to say this man is one of the stupidest most ignorant people I think I have ever read an article by. It's laughable. What a COMPLETE moron. I can't even get mad. He's a stereotypical insane old man, that rants and raves at the slightest thing and gets his soiled panties all in a knot... if I want to hear this sort of insane ranting, I'll go talk to my grandmother.

I hope he too gets mauled by a shih tzu - just like Michael Bryant.

It would be short-sighted to cancel subscriptions to the Toronto SUN, since they are the only Ontario Daily to come out AGAINST the ban.

You have to understand that they allow individual journalists/columnists to state their own opinions.

The Toronto Star has been more pro-ban than any other Ontario newspaper. That's most likely because they are a Liberal rag.

Good post Faceless. Unfortunately, they have been the most unbiased paper about the whole issue. Faceless is right, it's ususally the individual freelance columnists.

Today's headline reads: HELL DOG!
Then underneath it says "Canary Dog is a Pit Bull on steriods"

The Toronto Sun understands what's to happen next.....

This column does not even deserve a comment,totally hateful and inane :evil:
But it's writers like him,who stir up people already weary of Pit-Bulls...it's just too sickening for words :yuck:

Hmmm...it says he'd love to hear from us. :evil:

I say someone should take this fruit bag and beat him, starve him, throw him from moving cars, tie him up on a short chain with no room to run or play, no food, no water, in the freezing cold, and then feed him gun powder and see how he reacts... seeing as how that's how the dogs who attack people are treated. They are trained to be that way by dog fighters, gangs, ect... People actually make pits eat gun powder to freaking burn their stomach lining so they are in so much pain that it makes them attack the other pit. I say we do all this to this moronic sob and see how he reacts.. then maybe then he can feel free to express himself. :evil: That is, if he hasn't died like so many animals do. Someone should put a muzzle on him!

When somebody goes over the top like that the only following that they impress are peoople who are already ignorant slobs who already probably support the ban, this is obviously an ignorant man who wants attention bad!
Hes probably done more for our side because intelligent people dont want to feel that they are assosciated with complete morons. Most people know of at least one or two really good people that own really loving pits. They know that most of us love our dogs for their loving personality and are willing to take alot of abuse ourselves to defend them. Sometimes enemies like this guy can work for the cause that they rant against! This is probably one of those times. :thumbs up

This guy is nothing but an antagonizer. Don't give him what he's looking for. It's best to just ignore people like this.... even when you meet them on the street and they tell you that you own a "devil dog"! LOL!!!

This guy is nothing but an antagonizer. Don't give him what he's looking for. It's best to just ignore people like this.... even when you meet them on the street and they tell you that you own a "devil dog"! LOL!!!

I usually just tell them that my dog is a heck of lot more friendlier than they are.

Someone said,don't blame the newspaper for printing such drivel,this guy is an independent columnist! This is not entirely true,the Editor has the final say of what is printed and if he does not like what has been written,the column is not put in the paper.
I know of one columnist in the Toronto Star,an animal activist(Barry McKay)who was let go because of his columns.

That's the difference between the SUN and the star. They don't fire columnists for dissenting opinions. Heck, they've had Eric Margolis for years, who's views contradict all their official editorial positions.

This guy probably owns a purse dog that would rip your face off if given the chance and he would think it is cute. Besides you guys are right ignore these people in all honesty we are talking about an editorial in the Sun and most educated people use this paper to line bird cages. So this is not one of the columists that the other papers are clamouring to hire. Sorry but the Sun flip flops to much for me to trust them first they were for the ban now they are not. But there editorials are usually against the dogs

that's one of the funniest things i've ever read:

"If I were a pit bull, with its proclivities for machismo and intimidation, I'd think it's kind of cool to be seen strutting around muzzled like Hannibal Lecter, my unique and defining signature. It could be worse. If I were a horse, a donkey, a goat, a cow, a swine, a chicken, a duck, or a goose, I'd be banned from living in the residential city, period."

holy reification batman. since when do animals have proclivities for machismo and intimidation. those are human traits my friend.

At 7:00 this morning I sent him a 'you are the second biggest idiot I have heard from' email.

If any one is compensating for anything there can be no doubt it is this loser. Disgusting.

If brains were dynamite, this jackass wouldn't have enough to blow his nose.

BAH! This all makes me sick! My Staffie was brought up with a Beagle... and I think she thinks she is one.... I know she has qualities very typical of her breed but half the time she acts just like the hound dog! I know she is a well socialized, loving dog.... She lives with 2 other dogs... and 2 cats...I wish I had the sort of money to appeal this horrible ban! And another thing... she wears a harness for walks but we have never had her on a muzzle and I have no idea how she will take to that, especially since the Beagle and the Boxer aren't legally required to wear them. I think I am going to pay a visit to my local Shelter tomorrow to find out how they are going to be enforcing this new legislation in our area.

Hold off on visting your local shelter just yet, Aislinn, Right now they are just a confussed and upset as we are right now, and they will not have heard much more than us. This fight is not over, it's really just begun, Municipalities do not want to pay for this, amimal shelter do not want to enforce it, The liberals think passing the bill was tuff, they ain't seen nothing yet, now they must find a way to 'FORCE" all this crap on people who want nothing to do with it, mayors across Ontario have more than enough financial tuff time to deal with and they don't need this too.
My mayor is agaist BSL, I'm going to make an appointment to see her and get her take on this, Mayor miller is against paying, mine is against, If more mayors get together on this, the Liberals are going to have a really tough sell, and more bad press.

Unless Mayors like Miller want US to pay for it! Theyve already tried to put that into the bill ,Toronto board of health I mean. Part of City Council- would have had to have been approved by city council.

This is my letter to Earl, sent today


Earl ,you're on your way to a "bullitzer" prize if you keep this up. It

is people like you that keep the tears of laughter running down our

faces every time you rant about something you know so little about .

I don't expect much of a response as I know you and your guardian will

be busy replying to all of your fans and I have heard 3 letters a week

is about all you can handle ? Don't worry I will write again even if you

don't reply . Thank whom ever it was that read this to you

Randy N.

the email address is there should you like to thank me .

So who ever had one??????? :yuck:

Five minutes to midnight and thats the first good laugh Ive had all day. Thanks Seeker. At first I thought that answering him would give him too much attention but the way you put it just shows that we know hes an idiot and not worth the time it would take to educate him. All in all, the perfect response :thumbs up

I don't even think the SUN has homedelivery,only on Sundays...
Mastifflover has it right,the SUN is a rag at par with the Enquierer :D many of you won't agree,but if you really want to know what is happening in the world and at home,the SUN isn't it.They like to antagonize,but I believe this columnist went a bit too far..many ignorant people will take his writing to heart and believe him,is this something worried Pit-Bull owners need right now?

Bill Clinton once said something along these lines: There is nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed by all that is right about America.

The Ontario Liberals will never solve anything nor be remembered for anything. They would rather we believe that all that is wrong with Ontario can be solved by banning pit bulls.

On the plus side the legislation is so flawed in so many areas that when it makes it to court the Province should officially declare it Jenga (http://www.hasbro.com/jenga/) day.

Until then everybody will have to deal with every self-rightous enforcer of this ban.

It's funny how some of you bash the Sun, yet it is the most anti-Liberal paper in Ontario.

Like I've said again and again, it allows its journalists more freedom than the average paper. So yes, you get crackpots like MacDonald, and sensationalized stories about pitbulls attacking other dogs. But on the otherhand, you get great columns from Linda Williamson (the new editor-in-chief) who consistently and logically showed the idiocy of the ban.

People who think the sun is just another enquirer, are not reading the columnists and editorials, or have been brainwashed and poisoned by decades of the mind-numbing Toronto Star, a propaganda rag for the Liberal machine.

You want a clear difference? While being a PC paper, the Sun called out both the Mike Harris and Ernie Eves governments many times. Contrast that with the Star, which editorialized about Dalton's Liberals' lies: "Sure Dalton lied, but it was good that he lied because the promises he made shouldn't have been kept anyways." All hail the Liberals ...

Talk about condescending.

Good Post Faceless. :thumbs up

Faceless,it all depends on what you want from your newspaper,I am not bashing anyone,I just do not think the SUN gives me what I need...my BH works for the Star and since they print both the Star and the National Post,thats what I read.
Even the Star has some excellent columnists,but I do not read a paper solely for their columnists and belive me,I despise the Liberals for what they have done and they'll never see our vote again,but it's not going to change my choice of where I get my news.
Also sometimes ANY columnist in ANY paper will write something I don't agree with,like in the case of the jerk at the SUN and unlike what you stated,the coumnists are often freelancers,especially at the SUN,but final approval of what's put in the paper is always with the Editor of the newspaper.

I stopped reading the Liberal Star when Dalton gave himself a B, and the article didn't just report it, it supported it. I know there's going to be bias in every paper, but the Liberal Star is far up the Liberal butts it should be printed on small squares. And I agree, the Sun is fairly "tabloid-ish" and sensationalist, but I also think they allow thier writers a LOT of lattitude. Thier editorial stance from the beginning was against the ban.

No offence Chico, but I find BOTH those papers to be the BIGGEST Liberal supporters. I seriously think that those papers are funded by the Liberal governement to print what they want us to read. I find that anything that doesn't pretain to politics in those papers is given sarcastic comments and very opinionate responses.

The SUN maybe somewhat trashy and they tend to sensationalize, but they "usually" report the facts. Of course, they do have their stupid editorials and columnist that we don't agree with, BUT they are free to exercise their freedom of speech and whether we agree with it our not; they are not suppressed and forced to be baised and one sided like the others.

No offence taken :D The National Post,is only printed by the Star,it's contracted out to the Star,but they are not involved in the contents of the NP.
I chose a paper for news and a good crossword :D
No newspaper is owned by any party,they are doing quiet well on their own..
It's the same as only watching City TV,they have some great feel good stories and gutsy reporting,not afraid to go against the grain,but for news outside of our borders I chose another station...

I'm responsible for one of those 'idiot' comments.

He has owned dogs, big deal. I think the first paragraph still defines him more than any of the others.


**Loki had posted the writers response but has since deleted it as a duplicate link. http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Ottawa/Earl_McRae/2005/03/05/950737.html