On Monday evening, the Roanoke City Council will hear public input on a proposed city code amendment to ban hybrid dogs within the city, allowing for existing hybrids to remain if the owners register the animals and “adhere to the same standards the City currently requires for dangerous dogs,” the agenda report states.
The definition of a “hybrid canine,” the agenda report states, includes “any owner who has registered, licensed, advertised or otherwise described or represented an animal as a hybrid canine, hybrid wolf, wolf, coyote, or percentage wolf or coyote.”
This follows an issue in the Greater Deyerle area, where the owners of hybrid-wolf dogs had charges placed against them after an incident on June 26 involving the dogs. The charges were recently dismissed, according to the Greater Deyerle Neighborhood Association’s website…