Editor, Manteca Bulletin

 We read with great sympathy and distress the letter to the Bulletin by Mel Upton about the savage death of his pet Yorkie Terrier, due to unrestrained pit bulls attacking their 7-pound Yorkie. 

This was a sad and all too common event.  Not much more than a week later on Valentine’s Day my wife was walking our beloved Border Terrier, all of 18 pounds, along the bike trail that extends into our neighborhood in Union Ranch.  An unleashed, out of control pit bull charged at them and if it were not for my wife’s courage and a canister of pepper spray, this could have easily been a similar tragedy.

 Manteca has a municipal code 6.08.010 that wastes 178 lawyer-chosen words to basically state, “Keep your dog under your control”.  What does it take to enforce this, dead children?

 

Edward Brown, subscriber

Manteca