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Sioux City dog owners want Sioux City's ordinance banning pit bulls declared unconstitutional, claiming it violates their right to due process.
Two
Sioux City dog owners want Sioux City's ordinance banning pit bulls declared unconstitutional, claiming it violates their right to due process.
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I live 45 minuets south of
Sioux City, I have a mixed breed dog, with me working in Sioux city I tried to talk to animal control to let me register me dog in the city to lesser the commute before I started looking at places to l
City, I have a mixed breed
dog, with me working in
Sioux city I tried to talk to animal control to let me register me dog in the city to lesser the commute before I started looking at places to l
city I tried to talk to animal control to let me register me
dog in the
city to lesser the commute before I started looking at places to l
city to lesser the commute before I started looking at places to live.
Eight years later, the
Sioux City Journal reports that the number of reported
dog bites has instead gone up:
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City Pet Care Veterinary Emergency Hospital, located in
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a full - service animal hospital specializing in the care of cats,
dogs, pocket pets, and exotics.
Sioux City's oft - debated ban has surfaced once again in the headlines after two local dog owners filed suit in August, saying the city's ban is unconstitutio
City's oft - debated ban has surfaced once again in the headlines after two local
dog owners filed suit in August, saying the
city's ban is unconstitutio
city's ban is unconstitutional.
Sioux City police have gotten fewer reports of
dog bites since the
City Council passed a pit bull ban in 2008, but officials say it's not clear why.
Police records show
Sioux City police officers responded to 37 percent fewer
dog bites in 2013 than they did in 2007, the year before the breed ban was passed.
Sioux City's ordinance describes a pit bull as an American pit bull terrier, American Staffordshire terrier, Staffordshire bull terrier or any
dog that looks like or has characteristics of being one of those breeds.
SIOUX CITY Six years after Sioux City cracked down on pit bulls and vicious dogs, fewer people are reporting cases of dog b
SIOUX CITY Six years after
Sioux City cracked down on pit bulls and vicious dogs, fewer people are reporting cases of dog b
Sioux City cracked down on pit bulls and vicious
dogs, fewer people are reporting cases of
dog bites.
Year - end bite statistics kept by
Sioux City police and animal control officers do not identify the
dog's breed.
Groetken served as the vicious
dog hearing officer before his retirement from the
Sioux City Police Department.
Sioux City resident Lisa Vaughan, owner of a registered pit bull, said all the ban did is unfairly target pit bull owners and their
dogs, when any
dog is capable of attacking people.
Jennifer Frost poses for a photo with her children, Moriah Frost, 1, Klara Frost, 3, and the family
dog Reba outside their home in
Sioux City, Iowa on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016.
Enacted in July 2008,
Sioux City's pit bull ban prohibits residents from having
dogs that are 51 percent or more pit bull.
Jennifer Frost, one of the parties mentioned in the suit, moved to
Sioux City in October with her husband, four children, and their two
dogs, Jake and Reba.
According to
city dog licensing information, Sioux City residents registered 93 pit bulls in 2016, about one - sixth as many as were registered in 2
city dog licensing information,
Sioux City residents registered 93 pit bulls in 2016, about one - sixth as many as were registered in 2
City residents registered 93 pit bulls in 2016, about one - sixth as many as were registered in 2009.
Within
Sioux City itself, agencies do not report
dog bite statistics by breed.
To some, a drop in the number of
dog bites indicates
Sioux City's six - year - old ban on vicious
dogs is working.
The
city separately reports the number of dog bite calls handled by Animal Control within Sioux City limits, which are counted by fiscal y
city separately reports the number of
dog bite calls handled by Animal Control within
Sioux City limits, which are counted by fiscal y
City limits, which are counted by fiscal year.
The owner of two
dogs that attacked a Morningside man has turned over 13
dogs to
Sioux City Animal Control, officials say.
Williams said
Sioux City Police Department is another agency that responds to
dog bite calls, typically when a
dog is still on the loose.
Mayor Mike Hobart of
Sioux City, IA thinks it's time for the council to tweak the city's controversial dangerous dog
City, IA thinks it's time for the council to tweak the
city's controversial dangerous dog
city's controversial dangerous
dog law.
While there are always more factors that prevent making a 100 % causal relationship between laws and results, passing breed bans often is followed by increases in
dog bites in a community — as has happened in
Sioux City, IA Toronto, Aurora, CO; the United Kingdom, Omaha, NE and many others.