{"id":768,"date":"2014-01-30T02:58:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T02:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatalpitbullattacks.com\/blog\/?p=768"},"modified":"2016-08-29T10:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:42:02","slug":"1907-bulldog-muzzling-ordinance-gainesville-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatalpitbullattacks.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/1907-bulldog-muzzling-ordinance-gainesville-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"1907: \u2018Pit\u2019 Bulldog Muzzle Ordinance, Gainesville FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn95026977\/1907-10-26\/ed-1\/seq-2\/\">Three Ordinances Passed at Adjourned Session Wednesday Afternoon<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Gainesville Daily Sun<\/em><br \/>\nOctober 26, 1907<br \/>\nGainsville, Florida<br \/>\nLibrary of Congress<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ordinance providing that bulldogs running at large upon the streets must be muzzled, and providing a penalty for the failure of owners of dogs <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">of this breed<\/span> to comply with the same, was read a third time and passed. &#8211; <em>Gainesville Daily Sun<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"background: #edeeef; padding: 15px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 25px;\">The bulldog of the late 1800s and early 1900s is the same dog as today\u2019s pit bull terrier. The only thing that has changed about this dog breed in the last century are the different names it goes by: bulldog, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dogsbite.org\/2010\/05\/1909-fatality-john-p-colbys-fighting.html\">pit dog<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dogsbite.org\/2008\/11\/part-i-doretta-zinke-39-killed-by-9-pit.html\">bull pit<\/a>, bull terrier \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dogsbite.org\/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-faq.php\">pit bull terrier<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dogsbite.org\/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-faq.php#dogfighting\">Modern dogfighters<\/a> still call their fighting pit bulls \u201c100% bulldog.\u201d (See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dogsbite.org\/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-owners.php#disguisebreed\">Disguise breed name<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Ordinances Passed at Adjourned Session Wednesday Afternoon Gainesville Daily Sun October 26, 1907 Gainsville, Florida Library of Congress The ordinance providing that bulldogs running at large upon the streets must be muzzled, and providing a penalty for the failure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fatalpitbullattacks.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/1907-bulldog-muzzling-ordinance-gainesville-fl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[77,93,110,36,111],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-breed-specific-ordinance","tag-77","tag-breed-specific","tag-bulldog","tag-florida","tag-ordinance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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