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Animal-control official urges focus on owners, not breed bans after bite data review
Summary
An animal-control official presented three years of bite-report data to the Marion City Council, argued breed bans are ineffective and delivered a redlined draft of a consolidated dangerous-dog ordinance for council review.
An animal-control official told the Marion City Council that focusing on owners and clearer dangerous-dog rules would be more effective than a breed ban after presenting three years of bite-report numbers.
The presenter (Agency official) said the department recorded 59 bite reports in 2023, 46 in 2024 and 43 in 2025 and estimated, by visual assessment, that roughly 26% of recent incidents involved "pibble"-type mixes while about 2% involved Rottweilers. "I don't think it is the breed whatsoever. I think it's the owner," the official said, arguing the data point to education and enforcement targeted…
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