Identification of a “pit bull” is difficult enough; identification of a “pit bull” puppy is even more so. Dog warden Tom Skeldon apparently had no set criteria to identify “pit bulls,” as he could not produce this criteria when requested to do so by the Dog Warden Advisory Committee.
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Lucas County orders end to puppy euthanasia
Dog warden’s TV remarks draw ire
By TOM TROY
BLADE POLITICS WRITER
Article published November 25, 2009The Lucas County commissioners voted yesterday to prohibit Lucas County Dog Warden Tom Skeldon from killing puppies at least through 3 months of age, including, for the first time in years, “pit bull” puppies.
[...] The advisory committee specifically included “pit bulls” in the moratorium for two reasons – because no 3-month-old puppy of any breed would be a threat to people and because it is too difficult to determine that such a young dog is a “pit bull.”[...]
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