L.A. County to Bypass Judge, Declare Dogs 'Vicious' for Minor Offenses Like Chasing or Causing Heart Attacks

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When will the Supervisors declare coyotes vicious.  After they eat up all our pets?  And, where are those thousands of "animal lovers" who show up in defense of these creatures now.  Friggin hypocrites. 

This law is so egregious and one-sided that I'm shocked that the SPCA hasn't stepped in.  They can kiss my contributions goodbye.  As an animal lover, I've always adopted my dogs from shelters, one of them being an abused, terrified 4-year old, 25 pounds mixed breed.  We were walking her & our other 20-pound dog on leashes on a narrow sidewalk in our neighborhood in Pasadena.  From nowhere, a jogger rushed through us startling everyone & almost knocking us down at which the dog nipped him in the leg.  You can guess the result of this encounter.  The Pasadena SPCA showed up at our house & tagged the dog as vicious & our side of the story mean't nothing to them.  Our dog was quarantined for 10 days & you know what will happen next if we encounter another idiot like this jogger. 

I'm willing to contribute to any organization willing to fight this idiotic law which gives so much power to these animal bureaucrats.

This is the equivalent of detaining any person who is in public and isn't carrying ID on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant. It won't be fair or just, because you won't accuse a white middle aged man of that, you will only pursue it when they have a clear ethnic background that has higher probability of being an illegal immigrant.

Example in this case: a Golden Retriever chases a jogger, jogger is maybe scared of dogs, and panics. Once this report gets to animal control they will likely hear from the owner it is a Golden and immediately assume the jogger overreacted at a playful golden. If it was a bull dog or terrier, they might pursue it. 

Has nothing to do with the potentially vicious nature of any dog, it's all perception of breeds. 

Border Collies will be screwed by this law too, their herding instincts are EXTREMELY difficult to train out, despite being well tempered and loyal dogs, they want to control things that run away.

Dude?! You look at most dogs and turn and run the other way, they will chase you!!! 

It has been many, many years since I was able to walk my own dog on a leash in my own neighborhood - or even take a walk in my neighborhood - due to the proliferation of big aggressive dogs, usually running loose but often just not under control.  I love dogs, but most of us are now prisoners of all you insecure idiots who need big macho dogs and don't want to take any responsibility for them and what they do to people, other animals, and the general decline of neighborhoods. You all scream that it is not the breed it is the individual - and now complain when the County wants more individual responsibility.  If you actually cared about the dogs and worked for spaying and neutering, better selection of pets, more training, etc. such that fewer dogs were abandoned or killed, it would make sense. But no - it's just breed, breed, breed more macho dogs and let them terrorize everyone.  I am really tired of losing my rights to move freely and safely in the community so you can have the right to breed dogs and act macho!

So dogs aren't supposed to be dogs anymore?  Herding breeds are programmed to chase moving objects, it's part of their DNA.  So if at a dog park a herding dog chases you, he could be deemed "dangerous" by someone not able to get a better job than minimum wage for the county and euthanized.  This policy stinks and the board of supervisors should be voted out of office.

LA Animal Shelter employees are being investigated for dishonesty, theft & selling of shleter dogs.  Do we want such rogues making death decisions for people's pets?

It is not fair for dogs owner , they should give them the chance to defend their animal and be able to train them if they happen to be aggressive for the first time... 

I've never been personally chased on top of a car by a dog, but I imagine that if I had been, or a child near me had been, I would want some kind of action taken.  If the argument is that the mechanism isn't subtle enough, well, that's a bureaucracy for you.  There's also no subtle mechanism to deal with that a mattress in-lanes that will sit there for 3 hours in peak traffic, I find.  At the end of the day, there are a lot of unstable animals in this city, and of course that's because of their unstable owners, but should I really have to consider that once I'm atop the roof of a Jeep Grand Cherokee?   Most people in this town, me included, would be loathe to bring about having someone's dogs taken away or killed, so I can't help but think people who bring complaints have a decent reason for it.  

Train the dog by incarcerating the owners. A good muzzling never hurt anyone.

I don't think one person should be allowed to determine the fate of one animal. There's too much killing going on as it is!

I declare all the four supervisors to be vicious to humans who should wear a red collar as a warning of their stupidity.