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Starting October 1, it will be illegal to leave dogs unsupervised and chained or tethered in lawns. The City Council passed the ordinance in June; pamphlets telling people of the new ordinance were sent along with utility bills in August.
Animal control won't be heading out randomly to houses, but will be working on a complaint-driven basis. Once a complaint is made to them by a neighbor or someone else, a warning notice will be given to the residents who are chaining up their dogs. If a dog owner still doesn't comply after notice is given, they could be fined as much as $500. The idea is that this new ordinance will keep dogs with their owners, but under more humane circumstances.
A fund has been set up by Animal Trustees of Austin, Inc. and the Austin Community Foundation to help low-income residents pay for adequate fencing for their dogs. If you'd like to help out, you can make a donation to the Dog Fence Fund on the Austin Community Foundation site.
[Statesman: Dogs must be taken off chains starting Oct. 1]
[Chain Free Austin]
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What about chained up cats?
That's probably more of a public safety issue than animal control.
soo... It's going to be illegal to have chained up dogs? HUH? This makes no sense. Do they want people to possibly get hurt?
poor dogs, they should be set free to chase and bite pedestrians...way to go city council, brilliant!
Yay! Now when my downstairs neighbor chains his dog to the stairwell all day long without water I can make a citizen's arrest! Or uh... complaint to Animal Control.