Thread: Did you all see the news last night?

Well Goerge Sofronidis from GTG has been running DNA testing on AST's for a while now. He has formed a signature for them and many other breeds. They then ran blind tests on any APBT they can find (of course they cant get any papered dogs here) and he says he does not find any AST in these Pit samples. He is prepared to stand up in court and testify this. SOOOO if we can prove that in AUSTRALIA with the closed AST gene pool we have here, that the two are now different we might be ok.
The thing that stuffs us up is the UKC doing dual registrations. BUT none of those dual registered dogs are recognised by the AKC,ANKC or FCI. So of course these are unable to be imported into the country so again not able to be injected into our gene pool.
Dogs QLD and the ANKC didnt want to know about it until the GTG lab spoke up about their DNA testing. Now they are onboard to help us fight it.
We are all shitting ourselves at the moment but we have to keep fighting it and just hope like hell we can come out the otherside. You never know, GCCC even said in court transcript that their 22 point check list and BSL altogether doesnt work so maybe we can use this to squash the whole bloody lot. Thats pie in the sky stuff but hopefully something good can come out of all this shit!!!

Yeah it just makes me angry when I read those comments. Dogs QLD are in talks with the state government today to see if they can come to a solution.
Surprise surprise, we have the RSPCA'S backing now, finally they are doing interviews and are anti BSL. Lets see what comes of today
Oh and thats a big YES if you see the state premier, have a big word in her ear for us

Ben I think the immediate response is to save the AmStaff but in saying that you have Dogs QLD and also RSPCA reps trying to get the "deed not breed" out there. The meeting with Dogs QLD and the state government was this afternoon but are yet to hear the outcome of that. The appeal is set for 2 weeks.
Its really sad but at the moment all the AST breeders are bloody fighting amongst themselves, some saying lets just be done with the APBT to save the AST, this I find aboslutely bloody shocking!! At the end of the day, we wouldnt have the AST if it wasnt for the APBT!!
There are a group of us here in WA that are in the process of getting an Association together which its sole objective is to promote "responsible dog ownership" rather than just be outright anti- bsl. We have found that just going anti-bsl doesnt get you enough backing so we are trying to tackle it a different way. Of course one of our main objectives is to be a voice against BSL. We plan to put together education programs and things which we believe are going to be very successful.