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To: Poet who wrote (3891)	2/8/2001 1:20:03 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 6089

It's hard to just send them away. The problem here is unfixed dogs running loose. very few fences, and even fewer fixed dogs. Yah, a bit of a squirrly day. A morning meeting in the county seat to try and keep a bridge open that gives access to the river for boaters, fishing, and sitting. It went well. Very civilized. The land of the guy who wants to close has land abutting ours. Can't blame him for being sick of the trash. People, a few, have taken to it as a dump site for daily trash, as well as washing machings, car parts, couches, and the like. It looked like it will stay open and work will be done to enforce keeping it clean. It's a great asset to the county. About time to get outside deal with inanimate things, or at least ones that don't talk. <g> I promised tomorrow to pick up a truck of stuff from the site. It really is a shame to see such a beautiful spot so trashed up.

To: Poet who wrote (3891)	2/8/2001 1:31:53 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 6089

They breed pit bulls as fighting dogs near here, which is why so many are dumped, I guess. Sad. I know you don't need further examples of sad, but I came upon this in today's Post. SE Man Killed for Refusing Pit Bull Fight, Police Say Suspect Charged With Second-Degree Murder; Council Member Calls for Regulation of Violent Dogs By Arthur Santana Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 8, 2001; Page B04 A 39-year-old Southeast Washington man was killed Tuesday because he refused to have his pit bull fight another man's pit bull, police said yesterday. D.C. police arrested Arturo Tyree Hester, 25, about 4 a.m. yesterday at his home in the 700 block of Harvard Street NW and charged him with second-degree murder while armed. Police said Hester struck Eddie Mack, of the 2600 block of Douglass Road SE, with a chunk of concrete after Mack refused to have his dog fight Hester's dog. The incident occurred in the 500 block of Hobart Place NW, police said. They said they arrived on the scene about 12:40 p.m. Tuesday, after receiving a report of an assault, and found Mack lying on the sidewalk, suffering from blunt-force trauma injuries to the head. Mack was taken to Washington Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead just after 1 p.m. Police also recovered Mack's dog at the scene. Police said they arrested Hester without incident. He was to be arraigned yesterday in D.C. Superior Court, said Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office. It remains unclear whether Hester and Mack knew each other and whether their pit bulls had fought before, police said. Wagering on pit bull fights is common in some D.C. neighborhoods, according to police and city officials. In other cases, police say, pit bulls are owned by drug dealers who use them as a tool of intimidation. The area where Tuesday's slaying took place is a hotbed of drug activity, said Assistant D.C. Police Chief Ronald C. Monroe. But Monroe said there is no indication that either the victim or the suspect was a drug dealer. Hester's pit bull was also picked up by D.C. animal control officials and it is unclear what will happen to the animals, Monroe said. D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), who introduced a bill two weeks ago that would ban the importation, sale and possession of pit bulls in the city, called Mack's killing barbaric and said it underscores the need for controls on ownership of the aggressive dogs. "The owner is the one who struck the person down," Monroe said. "But I don't want to discount what the council member is saying. . . . This demonstrates that the level of violence in this city is still too high. There's a subculture of violence that we've got to assess." Graham's proposed ban on possession of pit bulls would exempt current owners. But they would be required to register and sterilize their pets and would face fines of up to $20,000 if their dogs killed or seriously injured someone. A similar bill was introduced in November 1999 but died in committee. Graham said the underworld of pit bull fighting in Washington is "virtually out of control." "Judging from the number of dogs that are brought into the shelters and euthanized, we have a major, major problem," he said. From October 1999 to September 2000, the Washington Humane Society's kennel took in 426 pit bulls, including 334 "cruelty cases," which involved dogs suffering from serious injuries or malnutrition. Officials said 318 of the pit bulls were euthanized. Officials estimate there are 4,000 to 7,000 pit bulls in the District. The D.C. Department of Health has said that pit bulls accounted for about 23 percent of the dog bites reported to the city from October 1999 to September 2000. © 2001 The Washington Post Company washingtonpost.com