Becoming RESPONSIBLE After the Fact doesn't Work!

Why do they wait until after the fact, is what I'd like to know when an owner decides to take responsibility? In the Palm Beach Post Rocky's owners decide to get him nuetered and training by a behaviourlist, but only after he has attacked another dog. Then they wonder why people are on a witch hunt for 'bully dogs'.
Know and understand the facts of raising a pit bull before buying into the breed! Know the facts before buying ANY breed!
Why was Rocky allowed to roam is my other question?
This could have been avoided if the owner and her son were aware of the facts. Yes, Rocky is a great family pet that sleeps with the cats and the pet pomeranian, but if a dog on the street aggrevates him, he's not going to back down.
Now the other owners of pit bulls have to walk carefully due to one dog that wasn't educated until it was too late. Two year old Rocky, should have been fixed between 5 to 6 months. Most bites and attacks come from unaltered male dogs. The later you alter your dog, the more difficult it is to alter his personality. You can't alter a 7 or 8 year old male that is dog, male aggressive and expect that will change his personality. By that time his personality is already developed and the only way to mend that is through senstization with a good dog therapist, by why let it go that far? Why not start as soon as you get the pup?
Then these same owners state, well Rocky was always sweet to all our pets! It's incidences like this that continue to ban the dogs, good and bad. And who suffers in the end? All the responsible owners of the breeds and their dogs due to one careless one that didn't have enough sense to start from day one of doing what they should have done.
Goodyear and her son should have done their homework. She said from the beginning she was leary. Well, you idiot, by yourself a good book on the breed and READ it!
My other question that came to mind was, why wasn't Rocky fixed? Was the son considering to backyard breed the dog to make a few bucks? If I was that mother of that son, I would have told him, you find out all there is to know about the breed and you definately must have him fixed by 5 to 6 months old.
Was he only socialized with the family pets? So many questions, yet you won't get them by reading an article. Goodyear made a mistake...a BIG mistake, and because of that mistake the town yells BAN! One mistake and the other owners have to try to explain, but we are responsible. Then the fight with the town locals begin. People like Goodyear, with her and her sons lack of knowledge has started the ball rolling.
There are so many dogs that need to be saved. So many animal lovers will try to save them by adopting them. I say GOOD FOR YOU...but PLEASE, do the proper thing and read up on the breed so the rest of us don't have to suffer due to your lack of knowledge.
Take it from me. My Province has banned the breed and my only salvation is the Grandfather Clause to keep my Shasta. After her, there will be no more pit bulls I will ever own as long as I live in Ontario. Don't spread this disease...STOP IT! It only takes a little reading and knowledge on your part.