New condition regulation requires result Sunday that will raise Miami-Dade ban on pit bulls

MIAMI —  A new regulation signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis will go into effect on Oct. 1 that will supersede a Miami-Dade ban that prohibits the adoption of pit bulls in the county.

That means the 1989 county ordinance forbidding the breed’s adoption will then be null and void,  .

.”For us it means an option to locate more residences for pets that we have in our treatment,” stated Gabriela Dominguez, spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Animal Provider Pet Adoption in Doral. “With this ban staying lifted we are hoping that the local community can adopt these greater dogs since they have so significantly really like to give (and) they really should not be judged by the way that they seem.”

The county applied the ban 34 many years ago after Melissa Moreira, who was 7 a long time outdated at time, was attacked by a pit bull.

All through a former interview with CBS Information Miami, she reported was forced to undertake eight reconstructive plastic surgeries to her facial area as a boy or girl.

“You could see all this white bone, you could see my lip hanging up,” she said. “I was in the law enforcement car (and) I was a 7-year-outdated. I did not know what was likely on.”

She reported in March that she located it alarming that the ban would be lifted right after the condition legislature handed the measure, which was subsequently signed by DeSantis.

“And when the initially child receives attacked, exactly where is the accountability?” she claimed.

In accordance to the American Modern society for the Avoidance of Cruelty to Animals, “every single puppy should really be evaluated and taken care of as an person, irrespective of breed.”

Although condition legislation overrides the county’s ban on the breed, residential communities, this sort of as condominiums and condominium properties” can nevertheless limit precise pet breeds in their communities.

Dominguez has tips for any individual intrigued in adopting any doggy.

“Do not look at a particular bread by the way that a puppy looks since that is not a true testament to the way they behave,” she stated. “So it just is dependent on the way of living of the person as to what they really should be adopting.”