HELP SAVE JAGER

Jäger is my three year old blue heeler. I recently discovered he got out, and attacked another dog. The police notified me that I would need to contact the animal control to see about what would happen of my "red heeler". Getting in touch with animal control is like reaching the president. Eight days later I receive a certified letter stating that if I want my dog back I have to meet the following requirements: build a six foot chain link fence with a top and locked gate with a concrete bottom, retain my dog with leash and muzzle at all times, take out a 100,000 insurance policy on him, post signs stating he is a dangerous animal, have him neutered, and pay an annual registration fee. It's all this or he gets "properly destroyed" as their letter states.

I for one think these requirements are beyond ridiculous, and furthermore they want me to do all this within 20 days of the incident, and with no proof that my dog even started the alleged "attack". My dog has no way to tell me his side, so I have to stand for him and I for one am not going to sit back and let the animal control "properly destroy" my dog without me having a say so. The state of Ohio has already overturned these regulations of dog attack, because they feel that these requirements are unjust for the owner to even have a side in the said case.

I don't believe I should just take someone's word that my dog is a "potentially dangerous" animal when there has been no shown proof to me. I have lost so much sleep trying to think of how to save my dog's life, and not just for him but for all the other dogs who are wrongfully killed with little say on their side. There needs to be a change in how to settle these incidents without your dog pretty much have its life ended, because he attacked a dog. Any animal has it in their nature to defend themselves. If I owned a cat, and a dog ran up to it and my cat scratched it would that cat be murdered, because it "attacked" the dog? I'm going to go with NO! Dogs have no voice, no way to be heard, and even the breeds (pit bulls, rotts) that have been trained by humans to fight are left without a voice. Is it the Pitt bulls fault that someone beat on it, and made it aggressive? No, but in the end the Pitt bill will be the one to pay for that human's bad judgments ultimately because they are the ones who get murdered.

Any dog can be aggressive it's brought on by how you raise them, but my blue heeler has never attacked anyone or anything, and I don't believe he should be a prisoner in my back yard, and labeled a dangerous animal, because he attacked a dog.

Please help give these dogs' a voice, their rights to live, because the law would rather take an easy route and kill them unjustly than give them a second chance!!!