Small victory against the pit bull ban

[Laurelin]

Denver News - In Denver, Animal Control decides which dogs are pit bulls. But what happens if they're wrong? - page 2

scary stuff here:

The evidence presented by the city was far less persuasive — and less professional. No one from the Denver City Attorney's Office, which is charged with enforcing the ban, even showed up to present its witnesses. Eugene Lopez, one of the animal-control officers who'd examined Dexter, refused to answer any inquiries about where he'd worked before being hired by the city. Despite being a member of the specially trained pit bull review crew, Lopez told Cisneros that "he did not know whether the evaluations he performed in being trained as a member of the pit bull evaluation team were accurate and he similarly does not know whether his evaluation of Dexter is accurate," according to Cisneros's letter describing her ruling. Another animal-control officer, Richard Mouton, testified that while he knows a pit bull when he sees one, "he cannot recite the characteristics of the breed off the top of his head"; instead, he said, he keeps the standards on a cheat sheet attached to his clipboard while he does evaluations. Mouton admitted to Cisneros that he didn't "have a specific memory" of reviewing Dexter.

[Boemy]

Hopefully this is a sign the ban is weakening. That dog doesn't look pit-bull-ish at all to me . . . My first thought was boxer mix. But really, who knows with mixed breeds.

[Lolas Dad]

They should just throw out the BSL altogether because it does not seem like they could even identify a Pit Bull even if it bit them square in the A$$

[Romy]

thanks for posting this Laur, great news.

[Upendi&Mina]

I get malware when I try to open the link.