Dog Attacks On Haight Street

Dog Attacks On Haight Street
Amy Stephenson
Published on January 17, 2014
NBC is reporting that local merchants and business owners have been bitten by transient dogs.

There's a video at the link wherein Christian James Wise, a tattoo artist on the street, says he was walking down Haight Street and got bitten on the leg by a homeless person's dog. The encampment rant after the incident. There's another business owner who remains nameless who also claims to have been bitten by a pit bull last month. They interview John Denny, the officer in charge of Vicious and Dangerous Animals, who says the problems in the Haight are unique to other areas, since there are more transient dogs who "not safely confined." They also interview some dog owners who, perhaps not surprisingly, claim that dogs are dogs, whether transient or not. That may be true, but it doesn't address the concentration of unconfined dogs to this neighborhood. Dogs that get taken in get a hearing, if they don't have any previous bites, they're released to their owners. If they have a record, they're destroyed.