Hello Pinellas County Animal Advocates, Pinellas County Commissioners are considering a language change for their dog chaining ordinance. Under the current ordinance, a dog can be left outside, unattended, on a chain while owners perform a temporary task. Temporary is vague language. It cant be defined, or enforced. The language creates a loophole and people are continuing to chain 24/7. Your Animal Services staff, county administration office, and legal team has worked diligently to check with other Florida counties that ban unattended tethering. They have found that prohibiting unattended tethering is a successful way to stop inhumane dog chaining. A copy of the proposed ordinance will be available on the commissioners website once the agenda is prepared pinellascounty.org/BCC_agenda.htm .. Please attend the public hearing to show your support for the proposed ordinance at 6pm on Tuesday, October 21st at the County Commissioners Assembly Room, 5th Floor, 315 Court Street, Clearwater, FL 33756. If you would like to speak you will have three minutes to do so. A simple I am a Pinellas County resident and I support the no unattended tethering language is all you need to say. If you can not attend the meeting (or even if you can) please e-mail the commissioners and let them know that you support the change. There is a copy and paste e-mail provided for you--or you can write your own. If we all do our part we can get dogs off the chain in Pinellas County. Thank you for your support! Commissioners E-mail Addresses: Janet Long [email protected] Norm Roche [email protected] Charlie Justice [email protected] Susan Latvala [email protected] Karen Seel [email protected] John Morroni [email protected] Kenneth Welch [email protected]
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:18:05 +0000
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