Our very own Selma Mulvey of the DLCC presented to the Mississauga Council regarding owner visitation for animals being held at city animal services. The video is now available at Mississauga Musings.

One week later Mississauga Council voted unanimously in favour of owner visitation.

Social Mange also has the story.

Great job Selma! Yah to Mississauga!

h/t Social Mange

For those of you who may not know who Merritt Clifton is, if you disagree with breed specific legislation, I guarantee you, you won't like what Mr. Clifton has to say.

I received a heads up on an article out of Colorado about breed specific underwriting in the insurance business. 

Upon reading the beginning of the article, I got the impression the article was painting the true picture of skewed logic in insurance discrimination; however there always seems to be a but. (or butt, depending on which end you look at)

Quoting the HSUS is never a good thing, and beyond that quoting Merritt Clifton is definitely never a good thing!

Luisa, at Lassie Get Help, wrote a good article critiquing Merritt Clifton. This article has two parts. Here is the link to the second part. I think Merritt possibly did one too many hallucinogenic drugs in the 60's, because he seems to have carried some of the after effects forward into his studies and reports.

On the upside, my optimistic self truly feels there is going to be a distinct change of mind in the near future. I truly believe the 'thinking' people are starting to become more savvy to the fear mongering campaign. There is a cross section of the population, subject to the nonsensical spewing of the hard core monger. As for the rest of us, we are onto it...

Clifton, you are on the watch list! There is quite a colourful list of mongers, however thanks to technology we are hip to most. When you consider the odds of mongers per capita, there is a minute fraction of the population who dream up the fictitious crap. Fictitious crap that has NO scientific evidence, which at the end of the day you can try and try to stand behind a load of crap but it is still a load of crap. Unfortunately the media buys crap by the dump load. They must think it is a hell of a deal...

Keep the faith people that the people who follow the crap preachers are an even smaller cross section of the population. I like to call them trogs...

An article in the Rocky Mountain News today sure makes my blood boil!   more »

The word is, Rambo (whether the owners case is won or not) is likely to live.

A motion passed at a Mississauga general committee meeting, which will change the city's "pit bull" policy. The motion would provide a second option for dealing with DOLA dogs. Under the new legislation, the dogs would be given a temperament test. If the dog passes, the dog would be allowed to be sent out of province.

Here is an article from the Toronto Star.

I am pleased with the leadership shown by the city of Mississauga. Here's hoping more cities in Ontario will follow Mississauga's lead. Actually, come to think of it, once precedence is set...

The city of Mississauga passed the decision to allow visitation at the city pound. Rambo's owner has since had her first visit with Rambo. The visit went very well according to this report at Random Access.

Here is another article from Mississauga News.

Barb Haywood, author of Dog Politics blog, has a new ebook. The book offers tools, tips and strategies to defend your dog against breed bans.

To purchase your copy or read more about this exciting new book, click on this LINK.

Remember the grand award given to the Ontario Liberals in December 2007 by WSPA. Well, Melissa Tkachyk , WSPA Programs Officer for WSPA has a direct link to Sea Shepherd. Tkachyk was photographed giving the award to David Zimmer.

Sea Shepherd got into some hot water this week on the east coast of Canada.

Check out what Caveat has to say...

Thanks for the heads up Caveat!

Caveat has the details for court of appeal.

Read on...

In an article from the Mississauga News today:

Dog owner Gabriela Nowakowska was informed today by Ward 6 Councillor Carolyn Parrish that the City has had a charge of heart and that she will be permitted to visit Rambo at the Mississauga Animal Control shelter.

One of our DLCC executive board members, Selma Mulvey, spoke at the council meeting this morning. Her presentation was instrumental in a unanimous vote in favour of granting Gabriella visitation rights with Rambo.  Carolyn Parrish raised the motion in favour of allowing visitation.

There will be a final vote in the near future to change policy toward visitation for incarcerated dogs in Mississauga. This sets a valuable precedent for cities and towns.

Great work Selma, Carolyn and kudos to the city of Mississauga.