EASTPOINTE, Mich. – A new Eastpointe ordinance controls when dogs can be left outside.
The ordinance is designed to keep both people and animals safe. It prohibits dogs from being left out between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Dogs also cannot be left outside if the temperature is below 43 degrees or above 82 degrees.
Additionally, a garage or shed can no longer serve as housing for a dog, and chains can’t be used to keep dogs tied up.
“This does not include animal chains that are made for dogs. This includes large chains that are not meant for a tethering purpose,” said Brian Pylar, Eastpointe’s chief animal control officer.
AdamChap on February 4th, 2020 at 04:12 UTC »
What about humans?
EDIT:
Reasonable_Desk says:
This law is specifically about those humans, and how we can drive the homeless to suicide faster by mandating their only source if companionship be removed as one more middle finger on the fuck you sandwich.
Dyykaa on February 4th, 2020 at 03:25 UTC »
Prime example of why this isn't great are Huskies. It drops to like -20 degrees, and we get a foot of snow: my parents Husky looses her shit with excitement.
scienceisfunner2 on February 4th, 2020 at 03:17 UTC »
My parents have what is I think the best setup for dogs. The dogs sleep in a heated garage with a dog door so that they can come and go as they please. Outside they have a huge yard with an invisible fence with a pond.
By the sounds of it, this ordinance would make this setup illegal. No dogs in garages or out after 11 per the article. I'm not sure on the thinking behind all of that...