N.Y. Bill Would Mandate Insurance for Dog Owners

April 22, 2004

  • April 26, 2004 at 11:35 am
    sally rote says:
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    Shame on you, Peter Rivera. Isn’t your job as assemblyman to reopresent your constituents and uphold the Constitution of the Unites States? Do you even know what liberty for all means? Perhaps we need someone to fill your shoes come the next election.

  • April 26, 2004 at 11:37 am
    peter prance says:
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    Time for Peter Rivera to go!

  • April 26, 2004 at 11:38 am
    peter prance says:
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    Time for Peter Rivera to go!

  • April 26, 2004 at 11:40 am
    pix duller says:
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    Who pays your salary Peter Rivera? The taxpayers or the unsurance companies?

  • April 26, 2004 at 11:41 am
    pix duller says:
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    Who pays your salary Peter Rivera? The taxpayers or the unsurance companies?

  • April 27, 2004 at 12:09 pm
    jay says:
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    Peter Rivera is an ex-cop. Is it any wonder that he thinks the way he does? We should elect people with brains to the legislature, not guys who think with their fists.

  • April 26, 2004 at 3:56 am
    Tim says:
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    Actually, according to the New York State Assembly’s Web site (http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A10169), the bill has been pending in the Agriculture Committee since it was introduced on March 10.

  • April 26, 2004 at 4:45 am
    Micah G. says:
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    Maybe, State Assemblyman Peter M. Rivera is an former insurance agent trying to drum up business for the insurance industry in which he plans to go back to. Hey Pete, why don’t you require all parents to have liability insurance on their children since there are far more deaths and injuries caused by violence due to children than dogs. Elected officials need to have an agency relationship with their constituents and make sure this is the will of those who he/she represents and not his personal opinion. Soon, the average person will not be able to afford owning a dog. Dogs will only be for the rich. Thanks mental midget!

  • April 26, 2004 at 5:40 am
    SHERRI says:
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    What about the dangerous HUMANS. Can we orange tab them too? Can we post signs at there residence, Home of Murder, Rapist, Drug dealer, DANGEROUS HUMAN LIVES HERE.

    It’s not the RESPONSIBLE dog owner that is the problem, its the IRESPONSIBLE dog owners, the back yard breeders, the people that have something to hide that is the problem.

    I hope this does not pass!

  • April 27, 2004 at 7:04 am
    Dawn Buxton Turin NY says:
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    My heart feels for Elijah’s Family, but not all dogs are dangerous.
    Owning a dog is as american as apple pie. I have 2 doberman’s and they are as gentle as can be. They would sooner urinate on your feet than bit you. As a responsible dog owner I make sure that my dogs are licensed and vet check yearly and vaccinated. As a responsible dog owner I have spent a lot of money taking my dogs to obedience class and they have blue ribbions to prove it. I don’t have children; however, my dogs are my children. Six years ago when I had to put my 14 year old doberman to sleep
    it almost killed me. For a dog owner that is the worst thing they’ll ever have to do. I’m a nurse and I have never had to care for a inpatient that had been bitten by a dog. However, we admit and treat patients all the time for cat bits. By passing Elija’s law there will be an overwhelming amount of dog owner who will no longer be able to afford to own a dog. This will place an increased burdened on the SPCA and local pounds. Dogs will be abandoned and allowed to run and we will have problems with farrel dog like we do farrel cats. Who’s going to pay to clean up that mess. Dog’s are pack animals and allowed to run this could become and even greater problem.
    As a pack they may begin killing livestock to survive. I know that I speak for dog owners all over. It would be less painful to stab me throught the heart as to take my dogs away. If this proposal is passed I will no longer be able to afford to keep my dogs. I live for my dogs without them life wouldn’t be worth living. There has to be a better solution to this problem and not at the expense of Man’s Best Friend.



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