Marty
11-09-2005, 02:04 AM
San Francisco, CA -- An ordinance that would require mandatory spaying and neutering of pit bull terriers in the city will go to a final vote at the Board of Supervisors meeting next week.
A committee tentatively approved the plan Monday.
"We have reached the time where we have to take our heads out of the sand," Carl Friedman, director of the Department of Animal Care and Control, said Monday. "Pit bulls have reached the point where they pose a serious problem in our society whether we want to realize it or not."
Other pit bull-related ordinances introduced by Supervisor Bevan Dufty would require city permits to breed pit bulls and prohibit owners of pit bulls or pit bull mixes from retrieving impounded dogs unless the animals are spayed or neutered.
Owners who refuse to spaying or neutering dogs would face fines of up to $1,000. Breeders of show dogs recognized by a kennel club would be exempt.
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A committee tentatively approved the plan Monday.
"We have reached the time where we have to take our heads out of the sand," Carl Friedman, director of the Department of Animal Care and Control, said Monday. "Pit bulls have reached the point where they pose a serious problem in our society whether we want to realize it or not."
Other pit bull-related ordinances introduced by Supervisor Bevan Dufty would require city permits to breed pit bulls and prohibit owners of pit bulls or pit bull mixes from retrieving impounded dogs unless the animals are spayed or neutered.
Owners who refuse to spaying or neutering dogs would face fines of up to $1,000. Breeders of show dogs recognized by a kennel club would be exempt.
http://www.nbc11.com/news/5281477/detail.html