Doggie Database – Is Megan’s Law for the Dogs?

Posted on April 22, 2008
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Would you want to know about any overly aggressive dogs in your neighborhood? If a certain dog has previously been implicated in an attack, do you have the right to know about it to protect your family? Are overly aggressive dogs of a certain breed? Who is making the determination as to what constitutes an aggressive breed - a municipality? How were these dogs dealt with before the Internet?

These are just some of the questions being kicked around our little canine community. We’re not looking to take a stand and mark our territory on this one. No, we’re going to let the latest news out of Escondido, California pass through our paws unscathed. As with all decisions made for the greater good, there are both positive and negative aspects to maintaining a nationwide database of Canine Offenders.

Basically, Rover’s Law strives to “protect our children, our loved ones, our pets and our neighborhoods from the dangerous and vicious dogs that live among us. Our goal is to create a National Registry of Bad Dogs similiar to that of the Department of Justice’s Registry.” (In order to quote directly, we had to leave the misspelling)

Again, the mutt mignons realize legislation is not necessarily good or bad. Our only question comes with the implementation of Rover’s Law. Will McGruff become the leader of a Canine Gestapo, or can we all just get along - man and beast? Is a national Dog ID tag next? Uh oh, they slipped that one right under our nose…and around our necks.

For some helpful doggie data mining, give these sites a whiff:

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/

http://www.lostdogsdatabase.com/

http://dogdetective.com/

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