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Dear Mr.
Kelley,
Your comment (when recently interviewed by Fox News)
proudly boasted “there have not
been any
attacks by pit bulls since 2005”, was merely an attempt to deceive
the public
and
draw support for Denver’s unpopular and widely criticized breed
ban. Interestingly, you
defended a 2006
dog mauling when you reported: “Boxers can be very
protective.”
The article
can be found at TheDenverChannel.com: Grandmother Recovering After
Dog Attack — Good Samaritan
Fights Off Boxers To Save Woman, also reported on ABC Channel 7 News March
28th, 2006. Furthermore, next time, when you are asked
about dog attacks in a
televised TV interview or news article, we expect that you will also
sadly remember the German
Shepard mix that mauled a little girl, reported on
August
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by ABC Channel
7 News.
You also reported that Denver mostly picks up the
strays. Tell that to Gema Martinez,
whose house was raided
and her beloved dog Kane seized. Or Heidi Tufto, a respected
citizen and soldier in the US army, who was walking her dog
Lumpy in a park when she was
accosted by the police and
held at gunpoint, forced to surrender her dog. And if you are
mostly just killing the strays, why have so many panicked dog
owners moved away from
your city? Just ask Sonya Dias, one
of the plaintiffs in a civil lawsuit against Denver , who
hid her dog Griffie for several months before she could sell
her house and move.
In the true interest of public safety, it
makes more sense to ban all dogs. You are not
fooling
informed dog owners armed with libraries of factual data on why
breed bans do not
protect the public. Worse yet, breed bans
are an insult to responsible dog owners who
have had to
pack up and move out of Denver to keep you from killing the family
dog. And
for those residents who cannot endure the
hardships of moving out of Denver , why are pit
bulls
allowed to be cast off to other cities so they can maul those
people?
Other cities in your state have accomplished a
reduction of dog bites and made their
communities safer
without inflicting a penalizing breed ban on their citizens. Why has
Denver not contacted Colorado Federation of Dog Clubs? This
legislative organization
helped introduce an effective
dangerous dog ordinance without reference to breed in the
city of Englewood . Denver would be wise to follow in the
footsteps of Englewood ’s
success and also thereby limit
the probability of additional civil lawsuits.
This site
http://www.ci.englewood.co.us/Index.aspx?page=495 will take you to the
Englewood citizen newsletter (September/October
issue) that has an article written by one
of the city
council members. The ordinance itself can be found at http://www.englewoodgov.org/Index.aspx?page=284 and the city
council member contact information can be found
at
http://www.englewoodgov.org/Index.aspx?page=101.
Mayor Jim
Woodward of Englewood would be the most knowledgeable person for you
to
contact. However, we are confident that any of the
Englewood city council members would
be happy to share
their positive experience with this ordinance as well.
It is
time for change in Denver . We call on you to start protecting the
lives of innocent
dogs by sharing this valuable information
with your city council. Become a hero in your
community and
a positive force for change in the New
Year!
Respectfully,
Dr. Paula Terifaj,
DVM
Spokesperson for Roverlution.org
www.DenverKillsDogs.com
Please cross post this link by the Animal Law
Coalition - website of Laura Allen, an animal-law
attorney. Another great ally in the fight against BSL
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