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Scout shows you what discrimination looks like

Posted December 29th, 2013 in Discrimination, Prejudice and tagged , , , by Josh

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Many of you are familiar with the awesome webpage Stuff on Scout’s Head, which shows a cute and tolerant Pit Bull-mix displaying different humorous items balanced on his head. He is quite the talented character indeed. Well, Scout is from Ontario, Canada where Pit Bulls have been banned since 2005. He was grandfathered into the ordinance, as his owner had already adopted him prior to this draconian law being put into place. All those dogs coming after have been seized and killed simply because of how they look. Please stop for 2 seconds and think about that… Not killed because a shelter was full, or for space, or for behavior, or because a staff would rather ignore efforts to promote dogs and get them adopted. They were killed because of how they look! That’s BSL/BDL, or breed-specific (more appropriately called breed-discriminatory) legislation. I found this photo to be incredibly powerful, I hope you do as well. It shows Scout wearing his muzzle, which he must wear any time he steps foot outside. Please support them and stand against discrimination at all times.