N.S. municipality votes to ban Rottweiler dogs
Updated Thu. Feb. 12 2004 8:20 PM ET
Canadian Press
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. -- The Municipality of Guysborough has passed a bylaw banning residents from owning Rottweilers.
People who already own the controversial breed will be exempt from the ban as long as they register their dogs with the municipality by May 1.
Rottweiler owner Karen Wood was one of three people who appeared at a council meeting Wednesday night to try to convince councillors to reconsider the ban.
It didn't work. The councillors voted unanimously for the ban.
"We believe it's a knee-jerk reaction to some of the things that are occurring," Wood said later.
"There have been some horrendous things that have happened, but we also believe the individual deed needs to be addressed, not the breed as a whole."
There have been a number of attacks involving Rottweilers recently, including a high-profile case outside Saint John, N.B., in which a three-year-old boy was mauled to death.
Warden Lloyd Hines said he witnessed an incident in Glace Bay, N.S., last weekend that convinced him of the need for a ban.
He said a Rottweiler wandered into the backyard of Rick and Yvonne MacKenzie and killed the family's poodle.
"That could have been Mr. MacKenzie's child," Hines said. "I spoke to him and he said he took his kids in five minutes before that happened.
"I don't want to be the warden of the Municipality of Guysborough and have to go to the funeral of some kid who was eaten."
Wood believes the ban will keep dog owners from moving to Guysborough.
"I've been looking all over the province for possible different places to live," she said. "This is a beautiful spot, but not for me anymore.
"That dog is part of my family. I have children as well and I'm not going to choose one over the other."
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NOW HE WANTS TO RUN NOVA SCOTIA!!!!!!!!!!
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Hines hopes to run for N.S. Liberals
By DAVID JACKSON Provincial Reporter
Fri. Mar 13 - 5:33 AM
Liberals are looking to a couple of veteran municipal politicians to carry the banner in the next provincial election, The Chronicle Herald has learned.
Lloyd Hines, the warden for the Municipality of the District of Guysborough, said he felt the time is right for him to leave municipal politics for a shot at the provincial arena.
He’ll be seeking the Liberal nomination in Guysborough-Sheet Harbour at a March 21 meeting.
Mr. Hines, president of the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities, said working with the other levels of government will help prepare him for the job if he gets elected.
Fisheries Minister Ron Chisholm is the incumbent.
In Halifax Regional Municipality, Coun. Jim Smith (Albro Lake-Harbourview) is said to be looking at running in Dartmouth North, but Mr. Smith wouldn’t confirm that.
A nomination meeting is set for April 29.
PLEASE WE CAN NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN
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Liberal Leader
Stephen McNeil mcneilsr@gov.ns.ca
MLAs:
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Wayne Gaudet, Clare gaudetw@gov.ns.ca
Leo Glavine, Kings West glavinla@gov.ns.ca
Manning MacDonald, Cape Breton South macdonman@gov.ns.ca
Michel Samson, Richmond samsonmp@gov.ns.ca
Harold Theriault, Digby - Annapolis theriahe@gov.ns.ca
Diana Whalen, Halifax Clayton Park whalendc@gov.ns.ca
Dave Wilson, Glace Bay wilsond@gov.ns.ca
Lloyd Hines speaks
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