Gainesville, FL has seen a significant increase in dog attacks from 2014-2018 and this article delves into the recent attacks leaving neighborhoods in fear. City officials are considering strengthening their dangerous dog laws to add punitive repercussions, but residents want a preventative measure.
Punitive repercussions are preventative! Right now parking tickets and littering receive bigger fines than negligent dog owners whose dogs traumatize, maul, disfigure, mutilate and kill people, pets and farm animals. The only people who don’t want punitive meadures are those who deliberately promote the over breeding of dangerous dogs. Greed should not override public health and PAC’s that promote these breeds can only sway crooked and weak politicians. Dangerous dogs kill more people in the USA then all wild animals combined. Yet there are punitive measures snd special housing requirements to own wild animals.