FREE BRINDI: Excerpt of Judge's June 26 Statement

"I direct HRM to provide Brindi with the same opportunities given to other animals that come into its care, in that I mean Brindi be provided with the usual assessment as to her ability to be adopted or fostered to a person or persons that can provide her with all the due care but who can also keep her under the controls as set out in Judge Murphy's judgment of April 30, 2010. Should HRM not find such a foster or adoptive home in the usual manner or as a result of ill health as established by a veterinarian as retained by HRM, I also order that HRM has the right to euthanize Brindi in the most humane way possible but in any circumstances not prior to August 1, 2012."

HELP! HALIFAX WANTS TO KILL MY DOG!

My beloved companion and partner, over six years on death row and it's not over! In July 2008, Halifax dogcatchers seized my dog Brindi on an order to destroy her they issued without any warning - and without legal backing. Her crimes? Two reported scuffles with other dogs, and a third instance of getting loose accidentally, running to check out an approaching dog, which she never touched. She never bit a person or inflicted an injury to a dog that required medical attention. The city refused to reconsider, let alone negotiate; it rejected every alternative to killing Brindi, ignoring pleas from neighbors, trainer, vet, groomer, kennel owner, and hundreds of others - and no less than 5 positive behaviour assessments. A long, traumatic, destructive battle, with judges virtually washing their hands of her and sweeping aside all legal constraints on the city. In fact, they gave it more power - leaving her fate in the hands of the city that already decided to kill her! Halifax never deemed her dangerous - and the law does not even require dangerous dogs to be put down. HELP!