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The city has decided to rewrite the proposed animal ordinance to remove the breed-specific ban. It is unclear at this time whether any breed-specific language will be retained. Although this article implies that all breed-specific language will be dropped, comments from the minutes of the Common Council suggests that the City Attorney (who is drafting the ordinance) only objected to the breed-specific ban, not the special restrictions on “pit bulls.”
A great deal of common sense prevailed, however. These quotes are particularly reassuring.
Police Chief Dan Trelka said he gathered statistics of dog bites in the city over the last two years. If bite criteria were used, he said, the city would need to ban beagles. Trelka said the problem has not been with pit bulls but with dogs at large.
From a legal standpoint, [City Attorney Randy] Nesbitt said he talked with other communities that passed pit bull bans and got a number of responses. “‘Don’t do it’ was the general tenure of their response,” Nesbitt said. “These bans are difficult to enforce, and you’re not necessarily getting to the root of the problem. It’s a matter of training the dog.”
New ordinance allows pit bulls, bans ‘vicious pets’
By Ramelle Bintz • rbintz@doorcountyadvocate.com • February 13, 2010
Pit bulls will not be banned in Sturgeon Bay.
The Community, Protection and Services Committee voted unanimously Thursday to remove language that would ban a specific breed of dog from a proposed animal regulation ordinance.[...]
Full article retrieved 2/19/10 from http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20100213/ADV01/2130423/0/adv&theme=ADVNEWS
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