After two dogs were killed by other dogs in Kyle last year, the city council passed an updated version of its dangerous animal ordinance during Tuesday’s regular meeting.
An animal is defined as dangerous if it’s bitten a human without provocations on public or private property; if it’s killed or severely injured a domestic animal without provocation while off the owner’s property; it it’s trained or harbored for fighting; if it is a warm-blooded mammal, which is known to carry or be susceptible to the rabies virus and which cannot be effectively vaccinated against that virus with any vaccine; if it’s a hybrid animal or any pet wildlife which has attack a human or is apprehended or observed unrestrained; or if it’s a venomous or carnivorous fish or reptile.
“We saw this as an opportunity that we needed to make some improvements in our dangerous animal ordinance,” city councilmember Dex Ellison said. “All too often we see at every level of our government where things happen and then it’s talked about a law should be changed or things should be changed and then nothing happens. So this, I’m proud to be apart of this along with all the others that were involved that something did happen and we’re trying to change the law to make it better.”
