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Pioneer Press
After another dog attack, St. Paul considers ordinance
Last update: April 24, 2007 – 9:28 PM
Only a couple of days after the latest serious dog attack in St. Paul, the City Council today is expected to pass an ordinance meant to curb such attacks as well as canine abuse.
The proposed ordinance, sponsored by Council President Kathy Lantry, isn't directly linked to the recent spate of dog attacks. But it would prohibit some owners with a history of dangerous dogs from having dog licenses.
In the latest incident, a woman delivering court papers to a home on St. Paul's East Side was attacked by two dogs about 2 p.m. Monday.
The woman was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, where she was treated for her injuries.
The dogs, a male and female, are expected to be ruled dangerous and destroyed, said St. Paul Animal Control supervisor Bill Stephenson.
Lantry said she doesn't know if her ordinance would have stopped such an attack. But, she said, it would strip dog licenses from owners who have had one or more dogs removed at least twice from their care within the last five years.
Lantry introduced the ordinance because of a man in her East Side ward who she said treated dogs like "disposable plates." Neighbors complained that he almost immediately got new dogs to replace those declared dangerous and removed from his home.
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St. Paul passes law targeting problem dog owners
BY JASON HOPPIN
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 04/25/2007 03:41:28 PM CDT
St. Paul pet owners cited more than once for abusing or neglecting an animal can't legally own another pet under an ordinance the City Council passed today.
The council's unanimous vote came just two days after two pit bulls attacked a woman in Dayton's Bluff. The law itself was in the works for weeks.
The ordinance targets owners who train dogs to fight, puppy mill operators and pet owners shown to be irresponsible or negligent.
Under the new ordinance, problem dog owners can't register a new animal if their dogs are removed twice in a five-year span. Owners can appeal a license denial.
Existing city law requires all dogs more than 3 months old to have a license, which costs $50 a year, or $10 annual for spayed or neutered pets. A lifetime license is $60 with proof of a microchip implant.
Its starting to look like St.Paul is going to label whatever they don't like as a problem, meaning destroy it, damn what if someone has a problem child? Will that mean a new restriction will be passed meaning you won't be allowed more children. How about if your vehicle breaks down, never mind I already know its a problem vehicle and becomes city property.
I do agree that dog owners should be responsible for their pets, but whats with the "problem" label on everything in St.Paul?
To bad the dogs didn't get a hold of Lantry's FAT ASS!
Are there rights of any kind left in St.Paul?
Shouldn't the doghouse be condemned for housing such bad behavior and a public nuisance? So NOW they are addressing the issue of what's the cause of behavior problems! It's the attack dog and they want to solve it with the history of the dog. Wouldn't it sound really braindead if they addressed the doghouse as the cause of the behavior? Of course it would and if you think long enough of what they did and are still doing to humans and their abode, it sounds just as ridiculous.
Hey Bob, did Orwell write anything about man having his behavior issues recorded and then judged there's too many, like a dog for his behavior, and then being euthanized for being unruly and biting others?
St. Paul gets tough with dog owners
Anyone with history of pet abuse, neglect can't get another
BY JASON HOPPIN
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 04/25/2007 10:21:02 PM CDT
Two days after a vicious Dayton's Bluff mauling, the St. Paul City Council on Wednesday passed an ordinance aimed at what many experts say is the real problem behind a recent rash of dog attacks: bad owners.
Under the measure, owners who have a dog taken away because of abuse or neglect more than once in five years would lose the right to own a dog. One council member wants to take it even further, calling for changes to state law to allow the city to prohibit entire breeds of dogs.
"There are dog bites all the time where you get a nip here and a nip there. But if you research this thing I think you'll probably find that the major bites are from pit bulls," Council Member Dan Bostrom said. "There's a feeling that we've got to protect our citizens."
Council Member Dave Thune said there was no reason to single out particular dogs.
"There's absolutely no reason to single out American Staffordshire terriers as more dangerous than other breeds," he said of the dogs more commonly known as pit bulls. "... It's the owners. It's not the breed of dog."
The ordinance - in the works before the Monday attack on 59-year-old Joann Jungmann - is meant to address the frustration of some that when the city removes an abused dog, or one that has been trained to fight, owners simply buy a new one.
Its passage comes amid growing anxiety about aggressive dogs. And it came on the same day as a near-attack on the 1100 block of N. St. Albans St. No one was hurt, but city officials advised the victims to file a police report.
The two pit bulls involved in Monday's attack were euthanized Wednesday. St. Paul animal control chief Bill Stephenson said they will be tested for rabies, with results expected in the next day or two.
Stephenson is also expected today to issue a citation to the owner of the dogs, Jerry Lorenzo Morgan. Morgan had been cited for a previous dog-bite incident.
Morgan said Wednesday that his "deepest sympathy" goes to Jungmann.
"We really, really feel bad for the woman," he said. "It's just a sad, sad thing."
Making the decision to have the dogs put down was "the right thing to do when it comes to someone getting hurt," Morgan said.
Doctors plan to graft skin from Jungmann's less injured right leg on to her more seriously injured left arm and left leg today, she said Wednesday from Regions Hospital.
Jungmann was up and walking around for the first time Wednesday, which she said made her feel dizzy and nauseous. How much longer she'll be in the hospital depends on how her body accepts the skin grafts, she said.
Linda Peterson, a spokeswoman for the American Kennel Club, was wary of St. Paul's new ordinance. She pointed out that they take away a pet owner's property rights. "You're sort of giving them a life sentence," she said.
But Mike Fry, executive director of the Animal Ark No-Kill Shelter in Hastings, applauded the move.
"Pet ownership is a privilege, not a right," Fry said. "The way we handle them and care for them has impacts throughout our culture."
WLKX radio host Patrick Bettendorf owns a 3-year-old pit bull named Ruby, a certified therapy dog that makes regular visits to retirement communities and was recently inducted into the Minnesota Animal Hall of Fame.
He blamed poor owners for pit bulls' bad reputation, and said that in the first half of the 20th century, pit bulls were family dogs - even starring as "Petey" of "Our Gang" fame. They are now being trained by owners for the wrong reasons, and he said there isn't anything inherently dangerous about pit bulls.
"They're worse than nincompoops," Bettendorf said of the owners. "If you chain them out in the backyard, you are absolutely going to have an antisocial dog."
St. Paul licenses all dogs. An annual license costs $50, but licenses for dogs that are spayed or neutered cost just $10. Lifetime licenses for dogs with microchip implants are $60, and seniors get a discount regardless of the type of license.
Get-tough dog laws are becoming more popular as states move to tighten the leash on dangerous dogs. Not only are owners often held financially liable for a dog's behavior, some states are pursuing criminal charges as well.
The California Supreme Court is weighing whether to reinstate second-degree murder charges against Marjorie Knoller, who became one of a handful of people in the U.S. to face a murder rap for a fatal dog-mauling following an infamous 2001 attack in her San Francisco apartment building.
Knoller's neighbor, Diane Whipple, 33, was killed in a hallway by Knoller's two 100-pound Presa Canario dogs.
A jury convicted Knoller, but the judge lowered the charge to manslaughter. She spent 33 months in prison, but if the charge is reinstated, Knoller could spend the rest of her life in a cell.
The calls to ban pit bulls and other dangerous dogs are frequent, but few cities - Denver among them - actually do. However, the private sector is moving more quickly in that direction.
For example, American Family Insurance refuses to sell homeowner policies to people who own one of five breeds or types of dogs: Akitas, pit bulls, chow chows, Rottweilers and any wolf hybrids.
"We don't think our customers should subsidize homeowners that own dogs that pose a greater risk of serious injury," spokesman Steve Witmer said.
Staff writer Mara Gottfried contributed to this report.
Jason Hoppin can be reached at jhoppin@pioneerpress.com or 651-292-1892.
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