Reader Comments

" I have read the comments and you have to realize yes it is how you raise them ,but the city cant take a chance of someone being hurt by these dogs. I was at the hospital one night when a child came in with his face ripped up from a pit bull that was raised with him . The father shot the dog because it did that to his son. I think if people want to keep these dogs then they should have to register them , keep them properly contained and have to take responsibility if they hurt someone .So I say let them have their dogs but if they attack they should have criminal charges brought against them for endangering the life of someone else !! If I was to go out and drive drunk with my kids in the car and hurt one of them ,i'm loosing my kids and going to jail !! So if you want to keep that dog and it hurts someone you should go to jail and have to shoot your own dog !! "

" Of course they are going to put the blame on the dogs! It's easier for them that way. Eliminate the dogs and then they won't have to get off their butts and find the wrong doers who train these animals to fight and be vicious. As usual, the innocent get punished and the guilty go free!!! "

" I am originally from the Maysville area. Luckily, I moved away about six years ago. Five out of those six years we have owned a Pit Bull. I also have four children. The dog is the most gentle creature, and loves my kids to death. they ride on her back and she acts like a pup. We bought a house in Erlanger, and come to find out they also had a ban. They told us we had to get rid of her. We sold the house and moved. She's apart of our family, and has done nothing wrong. Why should she be punished. Of course I would never move back down that way, but local red neck government. There clueless, they obviously have nothing better to do, so they go for things of that nature. Explains why the city is a joke. "

" What is all this nonsense about Pitt Bulls? Coytes killed one of our dogs, take care of this coytes first. This was happen on Jersey Ridge. "

" why is it that everyone thinks all pitbulls are violent. I have raised several pitbulls over the years and not a single one showed any aggression. It all in how u raise them.Any breed can show aggression.Chiwahahas are aggresive by nature, and as a kid I was bitten by a neighbors pomeranian on the face that required stitches.Its all in how a dog is raised by its master. "

" IF DOG IS TRAINED AND OR IF THE OWNER SPENDS ADAQUIT TIME WITHA DOG WHETHER PIT OR ROTT THE DOG WILL RESPOND ACCORDINGLY IT'S NOT THE DOGS FAULT IT'S THE OWNERS FAULT. YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE IRRESPONSIBLE OWNER RATHER THAN TAKE IT OUT ON THE DOGS "

" Frankly, the pit bull ban and the amendment are both ridiculous. The logic being used by city council in instituting a ban is that it's in a pit bull's nature to be vicious, and everyone knows nature can't be trained out (sarcasm here). In reality, city council just can't figure out how to regulate people, so they go after lesser creatures (pit bulls) in order to "solve" their "problem." Meanwhile their stupid ban doesn't encourage anybody to take responsibility for their dogs. City council is allowing pit bull service dogs because they're afraid of violating the ADA... and their cute little amendment doesn't solve that, because anyone who gets a service pit bull after Sept. 1 is still allowed--by FEDERAL LAW--to have that dog. "

" They are not telling you what you can own, they are saying if a person has one and it is being used as a service dog, you can retain it! "

" Does a resident of Maysville have a service dog or is this just a way to provide some reason for someone to keep their dog while other can not? "

" There is no way a City should be able to tell a disabled person what breed of TRAINED service dog they can have, before or after Sept.1. The only argument that anyone could have about Pit Bulls is that some people don't raise them responsiblely, thus maybe creating a hazard. Thats not the case with a trained service dog. "