Post by RealPitBull on May 22, 2008 8:21:03 GMT -5
Ohio really sucks, ok? Yeah, I said it! 
I wonder what kind of law suits we'll be seeing when DNA tests on seized dogs show they aren't Pit Bulls? ??? What do you guys, think?
Vid at the link: www.local12.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6bfa4573-40d9-4521-a843-8def799ef966
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The City of Cincinnati may be about to put "Pit Bull Police" on the streets, but not everyone is sure it's such a good idea. Unless you owned it before 2003, it's illegal to own a pit bull in the City of Cincinnati. But the head of the city's Law and Public Safety Committee admits, it's virtually un-enforceable. That could be about to change. City Council is expected to pass an ordinance that will add some real "teeth".
Local 12's Rich Jaffe says some people believe it's one rule too many.
At the corner of Blair and Reading today, we met Dread... and his new pet... Jaws.
"What kind of dog is he? He's a pit bull."
Dread says he rescued Jaws a couple of months ago from a woman who was beating him with a baseball bat.
"He's friendly, playful, likes to play a lot, still a puppy...other dogs, he don't try to fight them or nothing and that's the way I want to keep him."
Dread didn't know it's illegal to own a pit bull in the city, but he's not likely to get in trouble, yet. A new ordinance city council's voting on will make the existing ban more enforceable by putting two trained police officers on the street in each police district.
Council Member Cecil Thomas, Law and Public Safety Chairman: "If it's a pit bull, the officer can respond and say ok, a preliminary determination, based on his training from the SPCA, that this is possibly a pit bull and the dog can be seized at that point."
SPCA officers will still have to respond to seize the dog, but Thomas says using police will make enforcement easier. It sounds like a good plan to Carolyn Hocker.
"I have a small chihauhua. I walked outside my door and a pit bull grabbed my dog a week or so ago, it tore into my dog. I went to the police department who told me I needed to take it up with the SPCA and that they don't handle dog issues, they handle people issues."
Opponents of the new plan say the biggest problem with it is it adds another layer to an already unenforceable law and, rather than specifically targeting pit bulls, it should target dogs that are just vicious.
"Once you train him to be vicious like that, any dog can do damage, any dog can do it. So, I think it is unfair. It's all within the owner."
But the leash goes on the dog... Rich Jaffe, Local 12.
Cecil Thomas says, if the new ordinance passes, it will give city council more information on the pit bull situation in the city. If the dog is found to be vicious, the owner can simply turn the dog over to the city and it will be destroyed or the case would go through the legal system.
I wonder what kind of law suits we'll be seeing when DNA tests on seized dogs show they aren't Pit Bulls? ??? What do you guys, think?Vid at the link: www.local12.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6bfa4573-40d9-4521-a843-8def799ef966
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The City of Cincinnati may be about to put "Pit Bull Police" on the streets, but not everyone is sure it's such a good idea. Unless you owned it before 2003, it's illegal to own a pit bull in the City of Cincinnati. But the head of the city's Law and Public Safety Committee admits, it's virtually un-enforceable. That could be about to change. City Council is expected to pass an ordinance that will add some real "teeth".
Local 12's Rich Jaffe says some people believe it's one rule too many.
At the corner of Blair and Reading today, we met Dread... and his new pet... Jaws.
"What kind of dog is he? He's a pit bull."
Dread says he rescued Jaws a couple of months ago from a woman who was beating him with a baseball bat.
"He's friendly, playful, likes to play a lot, still a puppy...other dogs, he don't try to fight them or nothing and that's the way I want to keep him."
Dread didn't know it's illegal to own a pit bull in the city, but he's not likely to get in trouble, yet. A new ordinance city council's voting on will make the existing ban more enforceable by putting two trained police officers on the street in each police district.
Council Member Cecil Thomas, Law and Public Safety Chairman: "If it's a pit bull, the officer can respond and say ok, a preliminary determination, based on his training from the SPCA, that this is possibly a pit bull and the dog can be seized at that point."
SPCA officers will still have to respond to seize the dog, but Thomas says using police will make enforcement easier. It sounds like a good plan to Carolyn Hocker.
"I have a small chihauhua. I walked outside my door and a pit bull grabbed my dog a week or so ago, it tore into my dog. I went to the police department who told me I needed to take it up with the SPCA and that they don't handle dog issues, they handle people issues."
Opponents of the new plan say the biggest problem with it is it adds another layer to an already unenforceable law and, rather than specifically targeting pit bulls, it should target dogs that are just vicious.
"Once you train him to be vicious like that, any dog can do damage, any dog can do it. So, I think it is unfair. It's all within the owner."
But the leash goes on the dog... Rich Jaffe, Local 12.
Cecil Thomas says, if the new ordinance passes, it will give city council more information on the pit bull situation in the city. If the dog is found to be vicious, the owner can simply turn the dog over to the city and it will be destroyed or the case would go through the legal system.
I look forward to learning much here