After failing to clear the committee and fetch a vote to cancel it, a ban on rottweilers and pit bulls being off-leash at Marietta dog parks remains tabled until October.
The rule to have both pit bulls and rottweilers on leashes, even at off-leash dog parks in Marietta, has been a rule since 2009.
City officials are now weighing whether to bring the ban to heel with a second dog park under construction.
Councilwoman Cheryl Richardson, who owns two rottweilers, told Channel 2 Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell at Tuesday’s council meeting that she wants to remove that rule.
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“I’ve had rottweilers since 2008,” Richardson said. “My dogs are well trained, one of them is a K-9 good citizen, which is extra training you do, they are allowed to go everywhere I take them.”
The District 1 Councilwoman said while her dogs Aries and Titan have never bitten anyone, she can’t bring them to Marietta’s off-leash dog park due to the ordinance in place about “aggressive dogs.”