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6 199 <br />HOK <br />Thus, while I would support an ordinance, if indeed it is needed in addition <br />to present ordinances, if it would sharply characterize the behavior upon <br />which it will base a citation. Manly dogs are ,aggressive, that is they will <br />brace in front of a stranger'But this type of aggressiveness is not <br />viciousnous, that i::, they v,rould not bite. This is only the ideal watch dog <br />characteristic ... to challenge in defense of property, but never to attack. <br />If the basis of the citation is not sharply limited, this amounts to just <br />another anti -dog ordinance. <br />2. The anti -dogs in open pickup truck beds is both ludicrous.and absurd. <br />First, there is obsolutiely no evidence to suppport the contention that <br />dogs in such a state are in greater dang?r'or pose a danger to the driver. It <br />Is mg el;perience that when I drive with nny dopa in the truck: bed, I consider <br />the situation and take turns more slowig and ;top lass abruptly. Thus, i <br />would contend, If my behavior is characteristic -of the r-rialor-it.y of <br />dog -in -open -bed piuck up drivers, which I think it is, that as an actuarial <br />group, our doqs and ourselves are a lower risk group than when the dog is <br />In the cab. Most pickup trucks are small impports. Having tho squoosh <br />large dogs into the cab of such trucks presents a logical hazzard in itself. <br />And what are the risks compared with those in the adergae station wagon <br />bringing home the car- pool of kids after school? Kids who rarely bade <br />restraints! if I had arrest powers, it would be the some as parking outside <br />a bar and stopping every driver leaving for 01.1I, which they nearly all are. <br />Are we going to stop the poor- pickup owner for having a doq in the bed <br />because this situation presents some overriding danger? Compared with <br />all the other more overt dangers around schools and bars regarding <br />vehicles? <br />think this issue'clearly resolves it self as a matter of personal <br />responsibility. Like the mother with ten kids packed in the wagon after <br />school, like the folks leaving the local tappy after Happy hour, the pickup <br />truck with dog in open bed calls for something called INDIVIDUAL <br />RESPONSIBILITY. I say again INDIVIDUAL RESPOi SIBILITi . i'es, there will <br />be some careless pickuptruck drivers who jeopardize their dogs; <br />themselves and even others, because of their lack of consideration' But <br />that goes for all the others, the mothers, the drinkers, anyone, who are not <br />stopped unless they have failed to consider through their t•�f•���o yr, their <br />own individual responsibility. <br />Other than this, this is just another anti -dog, and anti -pickup truck <br />01-dinarrce. Useless eXcept to the government attorney trying to build a <br />reputation. We have enough ordinances )ri Fero Beach to float the Titanic. <br />Let's not add more unless they are purposelfui and professionally designed. <br />32 <br />7 9 Fa,"'t 2:.97 <br />bin '000L���C/ <br />1Z Z <br />