Andrea Rosebrock 
The New York City Housing Authority has jumped on the BSL bandwagon in a big way! Starting May 1, 2009, if you live in the NYCHA housing projects you will be able to own only one dog as long as it’s not any of 27 different breeds of dogs they have listed as banned nor will you be able to own a dog that when an adult, will weigh over 25 pounds. This is down from the previous limit of 40 lbs. Service dogs are exempt of the weight and breed restrictions.
Not only do you have the typical breeds that you see banned such as any breed that falls into the pitbull line, doberman and rottweiler, you also have breeds such as Boston terriers and Shar Peis.
The NYCHA says that this revised policy in is response to an increase in dog bite reports so they are banning any dog breeds they consider dangerous.
Yet another knee jerk reaction of blame the breed rather than the owner.
The ASPCA is against the ban and are doing whatever they can to stop it. They are worried about already overcrowded shelters being swamped with more dogs because of this breed ban which goes into effect tomorrow.
Residents are being advised to follow the rules, to get their pets registered and then they have 90 days to make sure they are licensed.
You can read more about the revised pet policy on page 11 of the New York Housing Authority Journal – HERE (PDF – right click and save to your computer).
And I’ve just gotta ask, do they actually think that the very people who should not have these types of dogs are going to worry about a breed ban anyway? That’s one of the biggest problems with breed bans, responsible owners, for the most part, and innocent animals pay the price for knee jerk reactions and people’s stupidity!
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So many sweet Boston’s have been thru our training classes. Does the Housing Authority not know the Boston is known as the American Gentleman, the first breed recognized by the AKC, known for their sweet-natured disposition, clown-like, suitability as companion and house pet? They’re easy to keep and easy to train. After 35 years and over 10,000 dogs in our group classes there’s many other nasty little biting breeds I would rather see added to their list!!
Are these people out of their minds? They had mastiffs on their list – the couch potato of dogs? And Marge is right about Boston Terriers; the Gentlemens Dog. I hope that people will fight this nonsense, or get the hell out of New York City.
I noticed on their list below the dogs in a little paragraph that only parakeets and canaries are allowed also. Please give me a break. So people are not allowed to have conures or any form of parrots? Yes, the parrots and conures all have their morning calls, but they are very lovable birds if you treat them properly.
I am so tired of all these politicians telling us what we can have and what we cannot have. If they did any investigating before making their rules, they would find their list to be a bunch of b.s.
That is absurd. Where I live, the limit is 2 dogs but they can’t weigh more than 25 lbs each, which is not good either. My dog is 50 lbs – I got him as puppy though (he’s a little bigger than I thought he’d be) – he’s 4 years old now. I heard or read that there is some kind of thing where if you’ve had your dog for a certain amount of time (if the dog has been living in the restricted place for a certain amount of time), they can’t take him away – does anyone know anything about this? He is my “child” so he isn’t going anywhere without me of course. The owners don’t take care of the place at all – they don’t really enforce any rules because there is no manager onsite.
From what I have been reading, there is a “grandfather clause” in the revised policy which I believe means if your pet(s) are registered prior to May 1, you are ok. Not completely sure but best thing to do is to check and make sure you are okay. Don’t leave it to chance, they may actually be cracking down seriously.
Good luck,
D.
and i WAS going to ny for a weekend ha i dont think so!!! they can shove their dogs rules up their ass! start banning the bad people instead of the dogs!!!!
Oh please….what next? Banning the size a human man should be to a human woman? Gee! Why not just have all of us line up and get tested for everything we do from the time we hit the toilet in the morning to the time we brush our teeth at night. Damn. This country is getting very scary! My friend heard they are talking of controling what color of car you drive as well. Time to move up to them thar hills with my critters and close the door behind me.
I can’t believe this. More crap going on in this country. Take a stand. Stop patronizing businesses that do wrong, get politicians out of office if they are not doing the right thing. A petition needs to be Country wide from each state and all the same and they need to be submitted. It is time we took our country back. I do believe it all started with that bitch of a woman that wanted GOD taken out of things and won. This country is all about GOD, so let’s put him back. Businesses and products that don’t support him, stop using them or patronizing them. All I see anymore is stupid people jumping on a band wagon to eliminate things. It has to stop. There isn’t research anymore, they just do it. I couldn’t pull up the site to show me what dogs were on here, but I can imagine from everyone’s responce. Pretty soon if we don’t do something, we won’t be able to sneeze without permission. Come on people, let’s do something. I don’t have a problem go straight to the top to get something done. We need our country back. People are just making up stupid laws and we sit by and complain. Action is needed. As long as your dog is trained and loving it shouldn’t matter on weight or size or breed. We supposedly have freedom of choice so until they change this let’s fight for that. Sue the country for breech of promise, I don’t care how you do it, but get your point across. I could go on and on, but I will stop for now. I am just saying they are taking away all of our freedoms and our constitution isn’t what it says anymore. The constitution is the document of our country and we need to hold those assholes accountable and make them live up to it.
WTG Moe! Well spoken! Yes, we do need take our Country back. I forsee a up and coming American revolution! The Constitution isn’t even used anymore. It’s ignored and put aside. We can’t save our pups out there, until we stop these fools needing control of everything! You bet we need God back in our schools, our homes and all of our lifes in general. The fool that took that out will surely be sharing a seat with Lucifer. Not a place I want to be. So in order to save our beautiful creatures of God…all of them, we need to step up and stop these fools that are trying to take over America. High five to you Moe! Thanks for speaking out!
I live in NYCHA, did not register my dog cause even if I did she would not have been allowed in, she is now 50 pounds and an adult dog. So I am going to keep my dog, this is insane, I am going to move out of housing, I cannot believe this is happening, Freedom, Democracy, yeah right. Why must politicians create ridiculous laws, cause some people can’t control their pets. Something else could have been done, I am innocent, spayed my dog, vaccinated her I clean up after her and still I am being punished. I am a hard working single mom, and now I have to worry about my dog because she is 6 years old, a pit/lab mix and 50 pounds. I guess it is time to leave NYCHA, good riddance.
This is bull and NYCHA gets away with it. They have targeted behaviors without getting to the root causes of them. Crime, Poverty and Disenfranchisement run rampant in their buildings and all they do is set more and more regulations. When will it come to be that this US System needs more social and economic opporutnity. This is what they want. Greedy landlords harras and beat tenants down to get them to leave their building. I think the Public Housing Board is trying to do just that. make everyone want to leave and not be a part of the fabric of their community. I grew up in public housing my whole life and I went on to become a happy, healthy individual and it was under extreme fucking pain. Everyone around me was always in need and shit out of luck for a helping hand. We need to tackle policies that target us and our pets as citizens. Folks are organizing around it and make sure you sign the online petition going around. http://www.PetitionOnline.com/NYCHAPPE/petition.html This is the link for the petition.