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10-21-2008, 10:50 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | I Learned About This Over The Weekend BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (WCCO) ― A Twin Cities family is fighting to keep one of its pets after the city says they have too many. The brother and sister live together in Brooklyn Center with their three dogs, but city officials say they can only have two. Pat Laurin and her brother Ron Ruppert consider themselves a family of five. Their two younger Yorkies take care of their older one, who is blind. So, when the city showed up a few weeks ago on a barking complaint, they weren't prepared for what else they brought with them. "I said 'Yes, I got three dogs.' Well he says, 'You got to get rid of one because the ordinance says you can only have two,'" Ruppert said. Two dogs and three cats is the maximum number Brooklyn Center allows. Brooklyn Center Mayor Tim Willson said there's been complaints against the ordinance in the past but it's there to protect neighbors against foul orders and noise. Now, Pat and Ron must make their case to the city council to keep all three. "I'm going to tell them I think you have better things to do with your time than to worry about some little four pound dog," Ruppert said. After spending years together as a family, their decision has already been made, no matter what the city decides. Brooklyn Center has to remove a dog from a home about once a month, but the mayor said it's usually because of a dangerous dog situation. He calls a case like this one very rare.
__________________ Mammadoodle to my Yorkiedoodle Barney and our crazy cat Ms. Sassy Pants. RIP Audrey-Belle Within the heart of every stray lies the singular desire to be loved |
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10-21-2008, 11:01 AM | #2 | |
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__________________ Mammadoodle to my Yorkiedoodle Barney and our crazy cat Ms. Sassy Pants. RIP Audrey-Belle Within the heart of every stray lies the singular desire to be loved | |
11-15-2008, 06:26 PM | #3 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: In the sticks, MN
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| This is CRAZY! They can tell a family to get rid of one of their beloved pets but 'officials' can't do A THING about puppy mills????? What's wrong with people theses days? Have you heard any more details about this story? I thing that's just cruel and I think they need to consider each situation by itself. Sure, there might be people out there that don't take care of their animals and have way too many of them. But if the dogs are well cared for family members, how can anybody tell this family to get rid of one? I've had three dogs in the past, one of them very old. If anybody would have told me to get rid of one, I would have flipped! But what makes me even more angry is the fact, that up here we have this PUPPY MILL and nobody seems to be too concerned about it. Talking about too many dogs living in filth. Nobody complaining about noise or odor up here! She's got 800 dogs at "Pick of the Litter", not just 3 and 'the officials' up here just turn their heads and look the other way. Yes, I'm mad. At the injustice in this world! Sorry to vent, but it's just not fair. Let me know if you find out anything new. Thanks!
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11-17-2008, 07:39 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | I did post an update on the main board since I had gotten no response from here. I can't find it now, but the people went to fight for their dogs only to be told it was just an informational meeting they would get a court date or something later. I haven't heard anything about it since.
__________________ Mammadoodle to my Yorkiedoodle Barney and our crazy cat Ms. Sassy Pants. RIP Audrey-Belle Within the heart of every stray lies the singular desire to be loved |
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