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   XPost: rec.pets.dogs.behavior   
   From: Logic316@REMOVEyahoo.com   
      
   ThePuppyProphet@AniMail.Net wrote:   
      
   > Seems your INTERPERTATION of what you read was   
   > obsfucated by your FEAR and HATRED of dogs:   
   >   
   >  "'Without provocation' means that a dog was not   
   >  teased, tormented, or  abused by a person, or   
   >  that the dog was not coming to the aid or the   
   >  defense of a person who was not engaged in   
   >  illegal or criminal activity and who was not   
   >  using the dog as a means of carrying out such   
   >  activity."   
   >                  --Ohio Title 9, 955.11(5)   
      
   I have a problem with this Ohio statute; suppose an illegal drug   
   manufacturer trains some poor pit bull to keep trespassers away from his   
   house (and his laboratory). He's only doing his job as a watchdog, why   
   should be put down just because his master happens to be engaged in   
   criminal activity?   
      
      
   >   Dogs shall not be declared dangerous if the threat,   
   >   injury, or damage was sustained by a person who, at   
   >   the time, was committing a wilful trespass or other   
   >   tort upon the premises occupied by the owner of the   
   >   dog, or was tormenting, abusing, or assaulting the   
   >   dog or has, in the past, been observed or reported   
   >   to have tormented, abused, or assaulted the dog or   
   >   was committing or attempting to commit a crime."   
   >   
   >      Washington Statute 16.08.070, "Dangerous dogs   
   >      and related definitions"   
      
   This one sounds much better. A pity it isn't more universal across the   
   states.   
      
   - Logic316   
      
      
      
   Logic: n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with   
   the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.   
   	-- Ambrose Bierce   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)