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Date Posted: 15:58:58 04/15/03 Tue
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I have to attend this tomorrow. Anyone know of a little better law they can use besides having to put up an 8 foot fence? Sheeesh. I have no incidents with my dogs and I am being punished. I am being priced out of my sport for the frist time in 28 years. Any other locals going to participate in their right to own a large dog? I promise you will be next.
Linda
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Claire Taylor
ctaylor@theadvertiser.com
April 14, 2003
LAFAYETTE — Two weeks ago, Ellen Griechen awakened to discover two pet goats
dead inside her fenced pasture and two strange dogs lurking inside the yard.
The dogs had busted through a tin fence surrounding a nearby auto repair
shop, broken through a wire fence, two strands of barbed wire and a second
fence surrounding the Griechens’ pasture, and ripped open the neck of a
mother goat and a male yearling, Griechen said.
The dogs were not impounded because they did not attack humans, said Lee Roy
Dugas, animal control supervisor. The owner, who offered to pay restitution
for the goats, was cited for a leash law violation, a fine of about $75 to
$80 dollars, Dugas said.
“I know he feels bad. He’s not some horrible monster,” Griechen said of the
owner. She said she has a 3-year-old child about the same size as the
yearling that was killed.
A city-parish vicious dog ordinance under consideration by the Consolidated
Council would allow authorities to declare dogs vicious or dangerous. Owners
of these pets would then be required to keep them inside an 8-foot fence,
obtain $100,000 worth of liability insurance, register the dog
and obtain a $50 annual permit.
The Lafayette Consolidated Council meets at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Ted
A. Ardoin City-Parish Council Auditorium, 705 W. University Ave., to discuss
the proposed vicious dog ordinance that has been a
year in the making. The public will be allowed to comment.
The ordinance does not target specific breeds, such as pit bulls. Instead it
is designed to restrict any dog that is declared vicious or dangerous.
Dangerous or vicious dogs are defined in the ordinance as “any dog that,
because of its aggressive nature, training or characteristic behavior,
presents a risk of serious physical harm or death to human beings or other
animals.”
They would include any dog that has aggressively bitten or endangered a
person on public or private property, or when unprovoked, chased or
aggressively approached a person on a street, sidewalk or public grounds, or
that has more than once severely injured or killed another domestic animal,
the ordinance states.
“The ordinance is designed for the animal that will kill you or hurt you
bad,” Dugas said. “If people are going to have them, they will be held
accountable.”
Dugas said current laws provide animal control with little authority over
dogs that have behaved viciously.
©The Lafayette Daily Advertiser
April 14, 2003
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