BSL IQ Test

This was created by Paul Glassner of the San Francisco SPCA. I



BREED BAN IQ TEST



1. If you were the sheriff in your town and you learned that Toyotas were
disproportionally involved in more accidents than any other model, would you(a) ban Toyotas and confiscate the Toyota of anyone caught driving one, or

(B ) arrest the drivers responsible for those accidents?



2. Which course of action in Question 1 do you think would

(a) inconvenience the fewest number of people,

(B ) be the more efficient use of taxpayer dollars, and

(C ) be more effective in preventing future accidents involving Toyotas?


3. If your answer to Question 1 was

(a) -- ban Toyotas -- and the sheriff's department learned that, by a statistical quirk, drivers of confiscated Toyotas were perpetrating further accidents by driving, say, Hondas, would you then ban Hondas?

If not, why not?



4. If your answer to Question 3 was, "Ban Hondas, too, dammit, something HAS
to be done," then would you propose a ban on ALL car models with names
ending in "a," such as Kias and Mazdas, reasoning that all these brands are pretty much made for the same purpose?

If not, why not?

If so, how would you deal with car brands that end in the SOUND of "a," such
as Chevrolet?


5. Are you beginning to understand

(a) that because most of the tens of millions of pet dogs are NOT registered, "breed" cannot be defined in a meaningful way;

(B ) that miscreants employ pit bulls, German shepherds, Rottweilers, Dobermans, Akitas, Great Danes -- that is, whichever dog is handy -- as personal tools of terrorism;

(C ) that law enforcement authorities could waste inordinate amounts of time (and, therefore, taxpayer dollars) policing a breed ban, adding to their jobs a task perhaps even more meaningless than enforcing jaywalking laws;

(d) that the people most likely affected by a breed ban -- that is, those
inconvenienced, harassed and likely to suffer damage -- are the 99.9% majority of utterly innocent dogs and people; and

(e), most important, that breed bans do ESSENTIALLY NOTHING to address the
real problem: Human scumbags who abuse animals?



Key: If your answer to any part of Question 5 is "no," I'm afraid you have flunked. Please go back and reconsider your responses.


Hint: The answer to the question, "What shall we do about the bank robber
who got away on a bicycle?" is not: Ban bicycles.


Real answer: If your dog hurts someone, you -- not the dog -- should be
responsible. Anti-cruelty and anti-dog-fighting laws already exist. Tell your mayor, and city or county or provincial council to up the current penalties, and insist that judges enforce those penalties against lawbreakers.

Test created by Paul Glassner, SF/SPCA

Very thought provoking. Just goes to show how daft the 'Breed Ban' sounds.

your right staffy it just shows how ridiculous bsl is

Maybe breeders should be more choosy on what kind of owners their pups go to? Just a thought! Although it must be hard to know cause people could tell you aything i suppose just to get a pup

unfortunately SOME breeders couldnt care less what homes they go to as long as theyre getting paid for the pup

I thought I was being very strict on who my pups went to. I even did home vetting and the person who first had my dog pup showed me round her mothers house!!

how did you find out Staffy

She invited me over to her house and gave me a different address. Asked her when did she move and she said such and such a date.
When I spoke to her neighbour she said that the address I was given first off was her mum's.

While I was there her little boy stabbed the dog with a pen. Also her hubby would hold the pup 4ft in the air and smack him on the nose. Apparently he even kicked him across the living room

I phoned the RSPCA cos I was desperate to get my little boy back but fortunately family circumstances on their side meant that they couldn't keep him any longer so I got him back. The RSPCA turned up 4/5 weeks AFTER I made the phonecall

Jeez......

sorry maybe i should rephrase that, i meant breeders who just wanted rid of the pups, byb i was on about... sorry if i caused any offence