Colorado BSL - pit bulls

[Novel]

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Aurora's City Council To Vote On Pit Bull Ban

(CBS4) AURORA, Colo. Aurora's City Council voted to move a proposed pit bull ordinance to their regular session Monday night, which would be up for public comment and an official vote.

The proposed ban would prohibit new pit bull's from the city. Current owners could keep their dogs, but with new rules and restrictions and would have to pay a $600 annual licensing fee.

"I will do it because I love the dog, but I am totally against it because it's just another way to get money from people," said Ayanna Cook, owner of a pit bull. "It's another way to control people."

Cook said she sees her new 5-week old puppy as future family protection.

Under the policy, each pit bull would have to be spayed or neutered and the owner must have a $100,000 liability insurance policy on the dog.

Owners must be at least 21 years old and rules would govern how the dogs must be contained, including cages, muzzles and leashes at all times.

"It's based on the existing number of licensed animals here in the city," said Kim Stuart, Aurora City spokeswoman. "[$600 is] what it costs us to bring some staff on to be able to take care of that ordinance."

Aurora's city council says it was forced to look at the issue because the number of pit bulls coming from banned cities like Denver was also showing an alarming increase in the number of pit bull attacks.

"I think they're extremely dangerous animals, seeing what has happened here with one of my tenants," said Tammy Atteberry, an Aurora landlord.

She said a tenant was badly mauled by four pit bulls in early September as he was working on a car.

"I think that we just need to get rid of them," Atteberry said.

An Aurora judge ordered the dogs in the attack to be destroyed.

Pit bull lovers still say not to blame the breed, but blame the owner.

"I think it has everything to do with who is breeding them, and what they're breeding them to do," Cook said.

Pit bull victims said it shouldn't be their burden to figure out which dogs are safe and which ones are dangerous.

"I think we've heard from everybody who has an opinion. It's a real mish-mash of stuff but it's going to work just fine," said Molly Markert, an Aurora City Council member.

"I'm not quite sure that what we came up with tonight was an actual solution to the problem. We need to focus on the dog owners that allow this type of behavior," said Ryan Frazier, Aurora City Council member.

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Does anyone think that a $600 license will do anything at all to those owners that are furthuring the bad rep of this breed? Once again, the responsible ones get penalized and the ones that need to be stopped just keep doing what they want. And this just adds icing to the cake.

Under the policy, each pit bull would have to be spayed or neutered and the owner must have a $100,000 liability insurance policy on the dog.

What are they even definining as a "pit bull"? APBT or do Staffies, Boxers, anything of that type?? Who decides? ARGH!!!
WOW! We need to stop BSL now before we each see our own breed in articles like this. Then the designer people will get their way and it'll only be mutts left out there...

[Kade]

Wow! $600 is steep! At least they'd be letting the dogs live... but seriously. And a $100k insurance policy...

[Novel]

That was just for the dogs grandfathered in. No one else can bring new pit bulls into the city... Now seriously, how are they going to enforce that. Do they think everyone is going to be honest all of a sudden?

[TribalRats]

Like you said, once again the honest resposible Pit owners are to be punished. The people who raise these dogs and throw them in the back yard or on the end of a huge chain for looks are not going to give a *poop* about any law. They will continue to raise these poor dogs and mistreat them. So sad. How is it that people in our government don't get this?