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Legislature Poised to Vote on Dangerous Dog Bills

By Cheri Moon, Star Tribune Sales and Marketing

Last update: April 17, 2008 - 5:44 PM

Join The Dish blog to discuss this important issue and obtain futher information about breed bans and the stance of local groups concerning HF2906/SF 2876.

The "dangerous dog" bills are on the Minnesota House and Senate floors and need your action right away. Please contact your State Representative AND your State Senator and ask them to vote YES on the dangerous dog bill, and remember to say that you do not support any amendments that would allow breed discrimination. Be sure to thank your representative for considering your views.

HF 2906/SF 2876 is a comprehensive, generic dangerous dog bill that would require individual dogs that have been designated “dangerous” to be sterilized. The bill also would provide necessary appeal procedures to contest the designation of “dangerous” and would prevent reckless owners convicted of violating the dangerous dog provisions from owning dogs again.

This bill is the smart alternative to breed-discriminatory laws, which ban certain breeds of dog in the hope of reducing dog attacks. There is no evidence that breed bans are effective, while there is significant evidence that well-enforced, breed-neutral laws such as HF 2906/SF 2876 are.

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