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Colorado City Wants to Label Wiener Dog 'Vicious'
Fox News ^ | 2/24/10

Posted on 02/27/2010 6:53:31 PM PST by nickcarraway

A 17-pound dachshund is at the center of a bitter battle between his owners, who say he's a sweet dog who wouldn't hurt anyone, and the Colorado city where they live, which says the 10-year-old pooch is a "vicious" hound.

Spork, who has been featured on animal magazine covers, bit a veterinary technician during an office visit for dental surgery, KDVR.com reported. Both the technician and the animal hospital filed reports with animal control, said Kelly Walker, Spork's owner.

"I was holding him and he bit her on the chin," Walker told the station. She also says the vet tech got too close to Spork's face with some scissors, and that scared him.

State law says people who work with animals are banned from filing charges in dog bite situations, but the city of Lafayette says that city rules apply and Spork's owners will face charges.

Walker and her husband received a ticket charging them with owning a "vicious dog." Walker fears the dog she tucks into bed at night will be euthanized, and they are fighting the ticket.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dachshund; oscarmayer
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1 posted on 02/27/2010 6:53:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
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It’s probably responsible for choking several children.


2 posted on 02/27/2010 6:55:08 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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Dogs have a cowboy mentality.

Leave them alone and they will tend to leave you alone. Be friendly and don't provoke them. They have weapons.

3 posted on 02/27/2010 6:57:31 PM PST by Paladin2
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As a kid with several paper routes, the “wiener dogs” were the single most likely to bite breed on the route. I was bitten eight times by wiener dogs (three of them). Never was I bitten by GSD’s, pit bulls, boxers, Dobies, etc. Never had a problem with bigger dogs. It was always the little SOB’s - the wiener dogs, toy poodles, yorkies, etc.

And the owners of the toy dogs always laughed it off.


4 posted on 02/27/2010 6:59:03 PM PST by NVDave
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Wow you take your dog to the vet and they file a complaint about it? I guess they want to see how good their liability insurance is?


5 posted on 02/27/2010 6:59:34 PM PST by JLS (Democrats: People who wont even let you enjoy an unseasonably warm winter day)
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There are no pit bulls?


6 posted on 02/27/2010 7:00:31 PM PST by bmwcyle (Free the Navy Seals)
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I wonder how many people will take their animals to that vet now


7 posted on 02/27/2010 7:03:51 PM PST by junkyarddawg
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To: nickcarraway
Spork...the vicious wiener dog
8 posted on 02/27/2010 7:03:51 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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“...bit a veterinary technician during an office visit for dental surgery...”

Heck, I’ve bitten more than one of my dentists.


9 posted on 02/27/2010 7:04:40 PM PST by PLMerite (Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
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Scared dogs bite.

If the dog is a biter he would have been muzzled. He wasn't therefore he is not a biter.

10 posted on 02/27/2010 7:06:42 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (I miss the competent fiscal policy and flag waving patriotism of the Carter Administration)
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"It was always the little SOB’s - the wiener dogs, toy poodles."

I hate little rat sized dogs. They serve no purpose. But if their owners like them what the hell. And if they try to bite a swift kick from a big boot will solve that problem.

11 posted on 02/27/2010 7:08:42 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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The vet may be obligated by law to file reports about bites. IIRC, in some jurisdictions people docs are required to do so when a patient sees one for an animal bite. The overkill is the city’s doing.


12 posted on 02/27/2010 7:08:45 PM PST by mewzilla (I'm not a socialist. Heck, yes, I hope Barry fails. Sheesh.)
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Good God! Don’t tell any of this to Chet99!


13 posted on 02/27/2010 7:10:40 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: NVDave

The terrier family produces some really pugnacious dogs too. Smaller breeds like Spork (`teckels’) were bred to pursue vermin into holes & under rocks and kill them. They were used in ratting contests and against other dogs as well, so—all appearances aside—yeah, they can be as mean as snakes.


14 posted on 02/27/2010 7:12:34 PM PST by tumblindice
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Perhaps the vet is a transplant from one of those sue-happy states?


15 posted on 02/27/2010 7:13:48 PM PST by elpinta (DC, TSA: things that make me puke.)
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To: nickcarraway
I misread the title as "wiener dog delicious".


16 posted on 02/27/2010 7:16:03 PM PST by Dumpster Baby (Truth is called hate by those who hate the truth.)
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Yeah, I can relate. I used to pass by a weiner dog nest on my way to school as a kid. They’d come charging down their driveway with the nastiest expressions on their faces — always with crinkled little brows, like they were worried about something. They never bit me though. There was also a Chow dog who was pretty mean, but he was behind a fence, thank God.


17 posted on 02/27/2010 7:22:17 PM PST by Yardstick
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My Jack Russell was one mean son of a gun.


18 posted on 02/27/2010 7:29:12 PM PST by Persevero (Satan tries to separate what God puts together and join together what God separates.)
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To: nickcarraway

Small dogs exhibit bad behavior including biting a lot more than the big dogs.

The reason is that owners don’t address this kind of thing as seriously with weiners or chihuahuas or pekinese. A pit bull or a rott starts biting and the owner will address it immediately.

But the unusual thing here is that it was the veterinary staff that made the complaint? You’d think they would know how to deal with uptight mutts and would be careful not to get bit.


19 posted on 02/27/2010 7:31:19 PM PST by I_Like_Spam
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Walker and her husband received a ticket charging them with owning a "vicious dog." Walker fears the dog she tucks into bed at night will be euthanized, and they are fighting the ticket.

I would think that this would end the whole matter right there. Municipalities derive their authority from the state; ergo, state law trumps city law.

20 posted on 02/27/2010 7:33:19 PM PST by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got Seven? [NRA Life Member])
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