First Registration, then a ban

First Denver, Colorado, required that pitt bulls be registered. Then they passed a ban and used the registrations to get the dogs turned in.

DENVER (AP)- A few weeks ago, two police cars and two animal-control vehicles pulled up at the home of Stef'ny Steffan looking for her beloved 4-year-old pit bull, Xena. Seven officers hauled the animal off to the city shelter, putting her on death row.

Xena became an outlaw after Denver won a court fight and reinstated one of the toughest pit-bull bans in the nation. Since May, more than 380 dogs have been impounded and at least 260 destroyed - an average of more than three a day. . . .

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