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Further to a story we brought you on May 24, Huntsville Council to decide whether to lift order to muzzle dog<\/span><\/a>, Huntsville Council heard from both the owner of the dog and the plaintiff and, after deliberating on the situation, opted to have the muzzle order remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plaintiff said the dog had also attacked another dog, but that claim was not substantiated at the meeting. She said she is afraid to walk down the road and asked council to uphold the order to muzzle the dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one should be nervous walking down the streets of Huntsville,\u201d said Huntsville Councillor Bob Stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defendant said the muzzle order is a great injustice. She provided a petition with signatures all vouching for the dog and stating that the dog is not a threat to public safety. She said her dog, Nova, was one at the time of the incident and had already lost two years of her life under a muzzle order and asked that council give her dog a second chance. “Even those people who are imprisoned are allowed a second chance,” she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Council heard the dog lives in a condominium without a private yard, so a muzzle order means having the muzzle on at all times while outdoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputy Mayor Dan Armour asked if the dog had had any formal training, to which the defendant responded that she had been trained by herself and her daughter. Armour suggested that a professional dog trainer might be able to work with the dog, assess her, and bring the findings back to the council. The plaintiff said she would consider that but said she didn’t think a trainer would know her dog better than the people who signed the petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Monty Clouthier said prisoners also get counseling while they are in jail “so that they can get out and be responsible citizens when they do.” He said he’s had dogs his whole life until the last few years. He said he thought the dog should be evaluated by a professional. “I think we’d feel a lot more comfortable making a decision…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Scott Morrison said the decision is one of the toughest he’s had to make. He said he has two beautiful big dogs; they weren’t the best when they were puppies. “They’ve definitely improved, and muzzling my dogs would feel unfair.” He also said a dog belonging to a good friend was great with him but ended up putting its teeth through another friend’s hand and had to be put down. He said the dog is beautiful but if the dog were to bite or attack someone if the muzzle is lifted, he would have a tough time sleeping at night. Morrison said he wished he could take the dog home and give the dog a yard to play in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huntsville Councillor Jason FitzGerald said the decision was causing him great grief because he has two rescue Huskies at home, and one looks exactly like the dog Nova, the Husky\/Golden Retriever Cross who bit another dog and whose owner was ordered to muzzle her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The dogs fight; they’re best friends, and they give each other puncture wounds playfighting,” said FitzGerals of his Huskies. “The big Husky, a boy, I can’t take him off the property because he is aggressive, and I know that, so I don’t. We got the other dog to keep him company, and they have a great area to run through and play. So as much as I want to say yeah, remove the muzzle, in good conscience, I can’t.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bylaw Enforcement Officer for the Town, Corey Crewson, was recommending that the muzzle order remain. He also said upon consulting with the \u00a0Risk Assessment Coordinator, the resulting advice was that the muzzle order remain in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Cory Clarke said lifting the muzzle order is not worth the risk. “My greatest fear would be that there’s a small child or somebody that is injured severely, so it’s just not worth the risk, in my opinion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, the majority of councillors (except Armour) voted to keep the muzzle order in place.<\/p>\n\n\n

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