OPINION: 'As guardians, we must be responsible for our beloved dogs’ behaviors without the corporate blanket of presumption and bias,' writes Don Scott, former chair for the Humane Society of the United States in Arizona.
Arizona House Bill 2323 is on the clock at the state Legislature. It successfully passed through House committees and the full House with bipartisan support and is now in the Arizona Senate. It deserves to be signed into law.
Consider the Phoenix couple who recently had their homeowner’s insurance revoked by Hartford Financial simply for adopting Echo, a sweet pit bull, into their family as a companion to their Australian shepherd. According to a local media story, the couple who brought Echo home from a shelter a few months back was blindsided when Hartford Financial canceled their insurance after completing the requested inspection of the couple’s home.
Despite the misconception, “pit bull” is an umbrella term and not a specific breed. Without DNA testing, no dogs can be accurately identified. Going just by looks is often inaccurate and unfair to the dogs. Yet this is exactly what insurance companies do. We can consider the look, size, and reputations of dogs but it is an absolute injustice to blindly define them without knowing their DNA, prioritizing their behaviors, and considering whether they are integrated into a loving family or subjected to a life of abuse and violence perpetrated by humans. As guardians, we must be responsible for our beloved dogs’ behaviors without the corporate blanket of presumption and bias.
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