AR-News: (US CO) Hope for 'doggy profiling' victim

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DenverPost.com 
Senate bill now bars outlawing specific breeds 
By David Olinger and Julia Martinez 

Wilson family photo
Nick Wilson, 2, reclines with Buddy, who will be executed unless Gov. Bill 
Owens signs a bill that would, in part, make dog owners liable for damages the 
first time the pets bite a person.



Nobody has followed the Colorado legislative debate about dangerous dogs more 
intently than Ben Wilson. 
He's hoping it will save his dog Buddy's life.
Buddy, an 8-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier who weighs 36 pounds, is 
awaiting execution at Denver's animal shelter for violating its "dangerous dog" 
breed ban.
But legislation approved by the House and Senate to increase the liability of 
dog owners whose pets maim or kill also prohibits local governments from 
banning particular breeds.
Calling Denver's ban on pit bulls "doggy profiling," state senators voted 
Friday to prohibit local governments from outlawing specific kinds of dogs.
"We shouldn't be targeting any one breed," said Sen. Steve Johnson, R-Fort 
Collins, a veterinarian who introduced the amendment opposing breed bans. "It's 
dog racial profiling."




http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2089681,00.html 

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