Minneapolis puts up rogue's gallery of dangerous dogs

Owners, beware: Your canine's misbehavior could become a matter of public notoriety. Minneapolis has an interactive map showing where dogs labeled dangerous live, what they look like the reason for the designation.

April 8, 2015 at 3:55PM
These dogs are all part of Minneapolis' 'dangerous interactive map.
These dogs are all part of Minneapolis' 'dangerous interactive map. (Colleen Kelly/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Bernadette, Lady, Henry, Snickers - they don't sound like menacing creatures. But they are among the 35 Minneapolis dogs labeled "dangerous" by the city, a designation intended to protect the public and prod owners to keep a tight leash on their pets. The city has an interactive map showing where these dogs live and what they look like, as well as the name of the owner and the specific transgression: "killed a cat," "animal to human bite," "animal to animal bite," and so on.

It's a vast improvement on the map of dangerous dogs in Minneapolis and St. Paul that I helped create for our web site back in 2009. (The original map is gone, but there's a blog post about it). That had many more dogs on it, because it included more minor offenders (called potentially dangerous).

h/t Alan Palazzolo

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James Eli Shiffer is the topics team leader for the Minnesota Star Tribune, supervising coverage of climate and the environment as well as human services. Previously he was the cities team leader, watchdog and data editor and wrote the Full Disclosure and Whistleblower columns.

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