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Fort Dodge, Iowa Shows Waterloo How to Work with the Community, Not Pass BSL
Seeing that their recently-passed Animal Control ordinance was unfair in parts, the city of Fort Dodge, Iowa, immediately removed two problematic provisions: The limit on the number of pets residents could own and the requirement that dogs be fenced or leashed at all times, even on their owner’s property. See? Now that’s how…
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“Pit Bull” “Pack” Maulings the Latest Craze for Spring in California, New Mexico, Florida, and South Carolina
It is perhaps not so surprising that states that prohibit breed-specific legislation (BSL) like California, Florida, and Illinois, have seen “pit bull” attacks one after another recently, almost as if they were in someone’s sights to repeal those BSL prohibitions. Why else would the media and elected officials ignore the obvious problems — the…
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Williamson County, Illinois ACO Saved by Good Samaritan from Possible Drug Dog
Here’s a classic case of it’s-not-the-dog-it’s-the-owner. Since the owner claimed to need protection and had prior drug-related issues, it sounds like she may have trained her dog to be a drug dog (that is, a dog trained specifically to alert the owner and/or attack law-enforcement officers coming to raid a drug operation, etc.). …
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South Bend, Indiana Poised to Repeal BSL; Looks at Anti-Tethering, TNR as Well
From WSBT in Indiana: A new city committee meeting for the first time to review and rewrite South Bend’s codes governing Animal Care and Control has their work cut out for them. Thursday night they looked at an updated version of Ft. Wayne’s codes to see how it might apply here. They started by looking…
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S.W.A.T. Stands for “Shooting Without A Thought”
We recently speculated that it wouldn’t be long before a police officer, in his haste to shoot a “pitbull” or some other dog the officer believed to be hostile, would shoot a person. We didn’t think it would happen as quickly as a few days however. An officer in Paterson, New Jersey, in an attempt…
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Assistant Dog Warden Guilty of Willful Deception of “Pitbull” Owner Resulting in Dog’s Euthanization
An assistant dog warden in Seneca County, Ohio pled guilty to “theft in office” for willfully misleading the owner of a “pitbull” so that the assistant dog warden could euthanize the dog. When the owner of the “pitbull” came to the dog warden’s office in March 2006 to see if his dog (who had a…