Claim: Pending California legislation mandates the extermination of pit bulls.
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Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2006]
Against it.
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This is about California legislation being passed to exterminate pit bulls. If it passes in California, it could be on it's way to anywhere. Someone has to try to make a
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Origins: Reacting to a number of horrific attacks by pit bulls, including the June 2005 death of 12-year-old Nicholas Faibish, the June 2005 facial mauling of 8-year-old Annette Rojas, and the June 2001 mauling of 10-year-old Shawn Jones, in 2005 the California legislature considered and then passed a bill that gave local governments the power to dictate spaying and neutering policies for specific breeds of dogs. The bill,
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SB 861 does not give local jurisdictions the authority to ban specific breeds or to require the extermination of certain types of
Yet some pet owners fear
The e-mailed and MySpace'd alert, which claims the California legislature is contemplating a bill to have all the state's pit bulls put down, began in
Barbara "misread" Mikkelson
Last updated: 8 August 2011
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Geissinger, Steve. "Senate Approves Bill to Restrict Dog Breeds." Whittier Daily News. 23 August 2005. Gledhill, Lynda. "Bill on Animal Control Sent to the Governor." The San Francisco Chronicle. 1 September 2005 (p. B3). Associated Press. "Assembly Approves Bill Aimed at Regulating Vicious Dogs." 22 August 2005.