Monday, March 5, 2012

DOG BREEDER BLASTS CLIFTON PARK ZONING PROPOSAL.(Local)

Byline: Marc Carey Staff writer

A proposed change in the town's zoning law setting limits on dog ownership is for the birds, according to one town resident who has made a career of canines.

In a sharply worded letter to the Town Board, Mary Jane Row, a former dog columnist for a local newspaper who has raised and bred the animals, told the board that it is barking up the wrong tree with a proposed amendment defining a "animal hobby kennel."

The change will be the subject of a public hearing by the board tonight.

Row said the proposed change defines a hobby kennel as:

"A kennel in which dogs are trained, bred, raised and/or sold …

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