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The Monterey Law Committee has recommended an ordinance preventing residents from leaving dogs outside for more than 12 hours.
Vice Mayor Starlett Wessels said enforcement of the rule would be left up to neighbors.
“Nobody is going to have a stop watch. But if I’ve got an animal behind my house that I see perpetually chained then I have the option of calling the police department and notifying them,” Wessels said. “And then the police can show up and say, ‘Hey, we have concerns about your animal.’ I’m in no means proposing that we add on extra work to the police and have them patrolling neighborhoods for dogs. That is at the discretion of the neighbors and citizens of Monterey.”
The proposal allows owners to place their dogs on a trolley or pulley system for a period of time not exceeding 12 hours a day. Owners would have the option of providing a fence or pen for dogs.
“If anything, it’s just going to make the owners more aware that we have a policy Maybe they will fix the problem themselves,” Alderman Alex Garcia said. “Maybe we won’t even have to enforce the problem.”
The ordinance goes before the board of mayor and aldermen during next month’s meeting.
