Mark Buehrle has a dream.
A dream that his four little dogs will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the ferocity of their appearance but by the content of their tameness. A 1989 pitbull ban in Miami-Dade County forced Buehrle to distance himself from the Miami Marlins ballpark in order to legally keep one of his dog.
According to the Miami Herald, Buehrle is an avid dog lover and wouldn’t even fathom parting with his pitbull Slater over the ban. The All-Star ace even said that if there hadn’t been a place for him and his family to move that permitted the pitbull, he wouldn’t have signed in Miami. Luckily for the Marlins, Broward County shares his love for canines.
Buehrle, one of many dog owners who admitted that they hoped Michael Vick would get hurt, complained about the absurd law saying (via Yahoo! Sports):
“It’s kind of ridiculous that because of the way a dog looks, people will ban it. Every kind of dog has good and bad, and that depends on the handlers. If you leave a dog outside all the time, it’ll be crazy. Slater would never do anything harmful.”
The former Chicago White Sox pitcher is right.
You can’t judge a book or dog by its cover. To put a ban on a specific breed makes no sense. Back in 2009, a judge in the county even ruled that the law was too vague to enforce.
Buehrle has a dream that one day, down in Miami, with its unjust cat lovers, with its lawmakers having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Miami, little bulldog boys and bulldog girls will be able to join hands with little boy cats and girl cats as sisters and brothers.
David Daniels is a Featured Columnist at Bleacher Report and a syndicated writer.
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