Alot of time I think law makers do not put in the leg work to see what the animals are actually like.

Take for example Pit bulls, the city of Chicago wants to ban these dogs. They do not go to the families with great pit bulls that love their families and the kids around them. Instead they go to the people that beat their dogs, tie them up all year round or fight them and then the law makers determine they are bad dogs.

How about go after the bad owners instead. Now we just get new stories about a dog/snake/lizard (any animal really) that turned on it's owner or kids and the poor animal gets blamed all the time and then banned