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Marie Gallo From: PDNEWS4U@aol.com Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 11:44 PM To: gallom@north-olmsted.com Subject: To the member of the City council To the members of the City Council... Page 1 of 1 ,.-.~ Ms Gallom I wish to hove this letter read into the minutes. Dear Members, As a breeder living in Seven Hills, and friend to ninny breeders living in North Olmsted, I am very much opposed to passing nn ordinance against breeding dogs. Many of us are respected breeders that take great care, and go to great lengths to keep our dogs quiet and well behaved in order to not call attention to ourselves. Many of our neighbors are surprised to hear we even have dogs nt times. Surely you can understand the difference between good dog people and bad dog people, breeders or not! My understanding is that one person has caused this ordinance to come about and quite honestly, it is extremely unfair to punish good, conscientious dog people and breeders because of one or two bad. The many recently passed BSL laws were passed because of bad owners, and too ninny good dogs are being put down and abandoned because the cities were too afraid to punish the people who were creating them, and found it easier to punish the dogs, what a ashnme! If you pass such an ordinance, your city will be following suit and taking the easy way out, by punishing everybody, and it will certainly not hurt that backyard breeder who doesn't give a damn about their dogs or their neighbors; only the almighty dollar, you can be sure they will find a way to breed their dogs around your ordinance, while the rest us follow the law... it will hurt those of us who very much core about our dogs since we only breed to improve the breed, and our lines which ninny have spent many years developing. By careful breeding practices, we produce sound, healthy, dogs with great temperaments that are also respected members of the community. Some by becoming Canine Good Citizens and Thtrapy dogs. Please, oppose this ordinance so that the good people and dogs, are protected for a change. Your actions could be opening the door for neighboring communities to adopt the same, complaints or no complaints, just ns the BSL laws did. It is simply not right and not fair to good law abiding citizens. VOTE NO! Respectfully, Robin Hannon Seven Hills, OH 9/10/2010 ,.., .. .