Merde! I spent two and half years of my life rewriting the Seattle Dangerous Animal Code to address the due process that it lacked in the exact manner that Houston's does. And at the end of the excercise, the City Council Beeyotch [EDITED ON REQUEST OF AND IN DEFERENCE TO ANOTHER POSTER WHO TOOK OFFENCE TO THE USE OF A SLANG WORD FOR FEMALE GENITALIA] Jan Drago, who supposedly is the "dog friendly" City Council member, gave us the big F.U.
I heard more stories like that than I can count on my ten fingers. And middle class and below people who forced to face the prospect of either spending thousands of dollars to appeal the siezure or sign off on the city/county killing their dog.
The only thing to do is stock up on the guns, as needed, and be ready to take your dog out of the jurisdiction when they come. don't ever voluntarily comply with a turnover of the dog, unless you want it to die in captivity at the hands of the state.
