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Monday, 18 January 2021, 4:21 pm
Luna
at Plim Dog Park on a sunny day.
A
safer city and fairer fees for responsible dog owners are
the goals of proposed changes to Porirua City’s dog
control bylaw.
In recent years, the Council has seen
an increase in serious dog attacks causing injury to people,
says Porirua Mayor Anita Baker. To address this, and to make
things fairer for all, changes are being proposed to the
city’s dog control bylaw to:
change the dog
owner categories from responsible dog owner to selected
owner category
revise dog registration
fees
introduce mandatory neutering for dogs