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Q: Nearly four months after a brutal dog attack that claimed the life of a Montreal woman, the city has passed its contentious pit bull ban. 
  
 City council voted Tuesday in favour of changes to its animal control bylaw that include a ban on new ownership of pit bull and pit bull-type dogs. The final vote was 37-23 in favour of the ban. 
  
 "My duty as mayor of Montreal is making sure I am working for all Montrealers," said Denis Coderre. "And I am there to make sure they feel safe and that they are safe." 
  
 The bylaw vote was supposed to take place Monday, but was pushed to Tuesday due to a busy agenda. 
  
 The city announced that the new rules, including the ban on new ownership of pit bull or pit bull-type dogs, will go into effect across all 19 Montreal boroughs starting Oct. 3. 
  
 Members of Opposition Projet Montréal questioned whether the Coderre administration would be able to enforce the new rules. 
  
 "This is going to create a bigger problem than a solution," said Coun. Sterling Downey. 
  
 Attack leads to action 
  
 Supporters argue the new regulations give priority to human safety over dog safety and that pit bull bans in other jurisdictions decreased the number of severe dog bites. 
  
 "A Montreal woman died because someone didn't have control of their dog," said Anie Samson, the city executive committee member in charge of the animal file. 
  
 The city had originally intended to update its legislation concerning dangerous dogs by 2018, but plans were accelerated following the mauling death of 55-year-old Christiane Vadnais. 
  
 ​The dog that attacked her was initially identified as a pit bull, but police now say they are still waiting for DNA test results 
  
 Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre voted in favour of the ban. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press) 
  
 Court challenge planned 
  
 The announcement has led a Montreal-based coalition, composed of lawyers and experts in animal behaviour opposed to the ban, to say it will move forward with its plan to launch a court challenge. 
  
 "I think it would be a shame if people allowed Montreal to get away with this," lawyer Julius Grey told CBC Montreal's Homerun. 
  
 "This is very serious. It's not an object, it's not the right to seize a car — it's a right to take a member of your family and that should not permitted." 
  
 Animal rights advocates were also quick to pan the bylaw, pointing out that many cities that have implemented similar legislation have since repealed it. 
  
 "We are extremely disappointed with the council's decision to adopt archaic bylaws that are proven to be ineffective," Ewa Demianowicz, campaign manager for Humane Society International/Canada, said in a statement. 
  
 Demianowicz said the new law would kill "innocent dogs without any improvement in public safety." 
  
 The Montreal SPCA said in a statement it was "disappointed, but not surprised." 
  
 "If the city of Montreal truly wanted to ensure public safety, it would not have forced a rushed adoption of controversial legislation which is unfair, unenforceable, and, most importantly, ineffective," the animal protection agency said. 
  
 Montreal SPCA threatens to end dog-control services over pit bull ban 
  
 Pit bull advocates say the new law will kill innocent dogs without leading to any improvement in public safety. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press) 
  
 The bylaw comes as the Quebec government prepares to introduce legislation of its own. Public Safety Minister Martin Coiteux said the province wouldn't interfere with municipalities that choose to impose stricter rules. 
  
 "What's important is that we come up with common standards for the area that make sense, that will actually ensure safety for all. If some towns want to go farther, then I don't see why the Quebec government should stop them," Coiteux said. 
  
 What's a pit bull? 
  
 The new bylaw will apply to all 19 boroughs and will define pit bulls as: 
  
 Staffordshire bull terriers. 
  
 American pit bull terriers. 
  
 American Staffordshire terriers. 
  
 Any mix with these breeds. 
  
 Any dog that presents characteristics of one of those breeds. 
  
 Those who now own a dog of those breeds and already live in Montreal will have to acquire a special permit in order to keep their pet by Dec. 31, 2016. 
  
 The bylaw also creates two categories of dogs of all breeds: at-risk and dangerous. At-risk dogs are those that exhibit aggressive behaviour, such as biting someone. Dangerous dogs are those that have killed someone or are deemed dangerous by an expert. 
  
 "No matter what, if your dog is dangerous, we will be able to act accordingly," Coderre said. 
  
 An amendment to the bylaw made Tuesday morning aimed to address concerns that a pit bull would be automatically euthanized when its owner dies. The changes allow the pit bull's licence to be transferred to another person who was living at the same address, a direct family member or a spouse. 
  
 More Montreal news: ||||| Alix Packard drove from her home in Ottawa to Montreal’s city hall Monday to join more than 100 protesters demonstrating against the city’s proposed ban on pit-bull type dogs. 
  
 She has family in Montreal who would be affected by the new bylaw city council was preparing to vote on, she said. And because she has seen similar bans tried and fail. Ottawa has decided not to follow a similar ban on pit bulls enacted in the province of Ontario in 2005. 
  
 “There’s no scientific evidence that it works and it’s too expensive to enforce,” said Packard, who is founder of the Ottawa Citizens against Breed Specific Legislation advocacy group. “There’s nothing about it that makes any sense because it’s making people feel falsely secure when they should realize any dog can bite, not just one. 
  
 “I’m not willing to have my dog put down because of somebody’s uneducated opinion on it.” 
  
 City council was scheduled to vote on whether to adopt a new bylaw that will ban the acquisition of pit bull type dogs as of Oct. 3 and place strict restrictions on current owners that include muzzles and microchips for dogs and criminal background checks for owners. The debate and vote on the new bylaw, which is expected to pass because Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre’s administration has a near majority on council, will happen Tuesday. 
  
 Coderre says the bylaw, proposed soon after 55-year-old Christiane Vadnais was killed in a dog attack in her Pointe-aux-Trembles back yard in June, is necessary to ensure the security of citizens. Montreal city officials argue pit-bull type dogs are responsible for a larger percentage of serious dog attacks. Coderre said 38 per cent of dog bites reported to police in the last year and a half were attributed to pit bull type dogs. 
  
 “It’s a balanced law that protects the security of its citizens, and respects the rights of good owners of good dogs to keep their pets,” Coderre said. 
  
 Pit bull owners, opposition party Projet Montréal and the SPCA have protested the breed ban as an unscientific, unenforceable bylaw that will force the killing of hundreds of innocent dogs and do little to improve safety. 
  
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 “What we should be doing is consulting with the experts, looking at the information that is out there and developing a proper plan to implement measures,” said Projet Montréal councillor Sterling Downey. “The idea is responsible ownership.” 
  
 Potential owners will be hesitant to adopt animals from rescue shelters for fear of obtaining a mixed-breed dog that could come under the banned category of dogs, Projet Montréal said, with the result hundreds of dogs may have to be euthanized. Lawyers’ groups have promised to fight the ban. Montreal’s SPCA has said it will stop providing services for dogs if the city adopts the bylaw. 
  
 If the law passes, it will be illegal to own a pit bull-type dog (American Staffordshire terriers, Staffordshire bull terriers and American pit bull terriers), any mixed breed dogs that have a part of those breeds, or a dog with similar physical characteristics unless a request has been made to register the dog under a special ownership permit by Dec. 31, 2016. 
  
 Those applying for such permits will have to provide documentation proving they do not have a criminal record, and will have to prove the dog has been sterilized, has a microchip implanted and has its rabies shots. 
  
 Owners of pit bulls will have to keep them muzzled outdoors and keep them on a leash that is a maximum 1.25 metres long except in dog runs or an area enclosed by a fence that is at least two metres high. Failure to comply could result in the euthanization of the dog. 
  
 Outside city hall, Tara Mitrovka of Montreal said media focus on any attack involving a pit bull type dog has not helped the breeds. 
  
 “When a husky or a collie bites someone you don’t get that headline. When it’s a pit bull, you do,” she said. “You don’t want to punish good pit bulls and good owners for something they haven’t done.” 
  
 Watch Montreal city council meeting live here, starting at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. Note that there is not yet a set time for the pit bull debate. 
  
 rbruemmer@montrealgazette.com 
  
 twitter.com/renebruemmer ||||| After seeing a pit bull maul his next door neighbour Wednesday afternoon, Farid Benzenati says he couldn’t sleep that night. 
  
 “I barely closed my eyes,” he said. “It was horrible.” 
  
 Benzenati got home from work around 5 p.m. Wednesday and saw a dog playing with something in the yard adjacent to his in Pointe-aux-Trembles. 
  
 “As I approached I noticed it was playing with a large object,”Benzenati told the Montreal Gazette Thursday. “Then I saw hair. I approached further and that’s when I saw the body, the body of a woman, inert, motionless. My reflex was to call out ‘Christiane!'” 
  
 La Presse reported Thursday that the victim was Christiane Vadnais. 
  
 Benzenati, a French teacher, said his neighbour was unresponsive to his calls so he ran inside his home and called the police. 
  
 Police say the 55-year-old Montreal woman died after apparently being attacked by a neighbour’s dog. They found the woman’s body in the backyard of her home on Edgar Prairie St. that afternoon. 
  
 They believe the pit bull got into the victim’s yard through a hole in the fence at the edge of her property. 
  
 Police said the dog was standing by the body and acting aggressively. It was shot and killed by officers to allow paramedics to approach the woman, who was pronounced dead at the scene. 
  
 Benzenati said the dog attacked one of the police officers before they shot it. He also said that he had heard a dog growling at night for the past week. 
  
 “It was horrible, what I saw, very ugly. I’ve never seen anything like that,” Benzenati said. “I like to think I have a shell, I’m a father but I’m feeling fragile now.” 
  
 Although the victim had several bite marks on her body, an autopsy will be conducted to determine a cause of death. 
  
 “There were lots of injuries all over her body,” said Constable Benoit Boisselle of the Montreal police. “I’m not going to get into specifics but you can imagine what would happen with an aggressive dog.” 
  
 If the autopsy reveals the woman died because of the attack, Crown prosecutors could press criminal negligence charges against the dog’s owner, according to police. 
  
 Boisselle said police have met with the owner and that he’s been very cooperative. 
  
 SPCA Montreal spokesman Anita Kapuscinska said her organization is saddened by the tragic death. While the SPCA is concerned about dangerous dogs in the community, few details are available about the latest attack, Kapuscinska said. 
  
 “Has the dog shown aggressive behaviour before and nothing had been done about it? Was the dog in an unfenced back yard? Why was it alone? Where was the owner? Was the dog seen by a vet? What was the dog’s fertility status? 
  
 “Many questions are unanswered and we definitely will be following up on the circumstances that led to the attack,” she said. 
  
 For Benzenati, it was important to make sure his children were spared having to see their neighbour’s mangled body. 
  
 “We took the children aside, they didn’t know anything,” he said. “Well they know that a dog attacked our neighbour but we didn’t say she was dead. This morning we told them the truth. 
  
 “I love dogs, I’ve always had dogs as a child, but when I saw that image, it was terrifying. … I’m sorry but that kind of dog, you need to do something to regulate it, at least that’s my opinion.” 
  
 Charlie Fidelman of the Montreal Gazette contributed to this report 
  
 ccurtis@postmedia.com 
  
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A: 
Starting Monday, residents of Montreal will no longer be allowed to own pit bulls "or pit bull-type dogs," the CBC reports. The controversial ban was put in place Tuesday by the city council, three months after a 55-year-old Montreal woman was killed by a neighbor's dog that entered her backyard (possibly through a hole in the fence, the Montreal Gazette reported at the time). The dog, which was shot and killed by police after it attacked one of the officers who responded to the scene, was originally reported to be a pit bull; however, authorities are still awaiting official DNA test results to determine the dog's breed, and the Humane Society claimed in July that the dog was registered as a boxer. The vote came down 37-23 in favor of the ban, which had been decried by animal rights advocates and protested by pit bull supporters. "This is very serious. It's not an object, it's not the right to seize a car—it's a right to take a member of your family and that should not (be) permitted," says one lawyer. But a city executive committee member argues, "A Montreal woman died because someone didn't have control of their dog." The ban will also include Staffordshire terriers, any mix including a banned breed, and "any dog that presents characteristics of one of those breeds." However, current owners can apply for a permit to be allowed to keep their pets. Animal rights advocates plan to launch a court challenge.