{"id":181,"date":"2019-07-16T14:06:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T18:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/animal-care-services\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2024-01-08T13:17:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T18:17:40","slug":"dangerous-animals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/animal-care-services\/dangerous-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2>Definitions and Information<\/h2>\n<p>This page will serve as a resource for those wishing to identify dangerous animals in the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to City Municipal Code, a dangerous animal is defined as the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Dangerous animal&#8221; means any animal that by its behavior or training constitutes an immediate or serious physical threat to human beings or other domestic animals. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Factors to be considered by the Animal Control Commission shall include the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Circumstances that resulted in any injury or death to persons or animals, or serious destruction of property.<\/li>\n<li>Whether the animal was acting to defend itself, its offspring, persons, territory or property or was in some fashion provoked.<\/li>\n<li>The number, frequency and seriousness of past events causing damage to persons, property or other animals.<\/li>\n<li>The ability of the owner to control the animal, whether the animal has been previously abused and whether the animal&#8217;s behavior appears to be unpredictable.<\/li>\n<li>The potential for future damage by the animal due to the size, muscularity and bite strength of the animal.<\/li>\n<li>Lesser weight shall be given toward a finding of dangerousness if any animals killed or injured are traditionally animals hunted for sport or are considered vermin.<\/li>\n<li>Greater weight toward a finding of dangerousness shall be given to animals which are dangerous to persons as opposed to other animals.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 13:57:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/animal-care-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/animal-care-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/animal-care-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/animal-care-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/animal-care-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/animal-care-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/animal-care-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}