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fIF <br /> Treat Me Like a Dog 3—..2 i-90 <br /> 1419-D Crawford Dairy Road <br /> Chapel Hill,NC 27516 <br /> 919/929-3939 <br /> March 21, 1990 <br /> Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> Chapel Hill, NC 27514 <br /> Dear County Commissioner: <br /> This is flat a request for a permit to keep a wild animal within Orange County, but a <br /> request for exemption from that ordinance for the numerous sound genetic, socialization, <br /> training, environmental and (most importantly) behavioral reasons contained herein. <br /> Our dog is neither a wild wolf nor a wild wolf crossbreed. Her domestic lineage can be <br /> traced back over seventy years. Over twenty generations of loving care and selective breeding <br /> for temperament and responsiveness have produced this animal with an incredibly loving and <br /> sweet nature. <br /> We are responding to an ordinance both ambiguously defined and incomplete in remedy -- <br /> other than for wild tigers and lesser big cats. I obviously have a great interest in seeing this <br /> situation pleasantly and equitably resolved. To this end, I offer my time and energy -- as well <br /> as my and my associate's combined 45+ years of professional animal/training experience in <br /> helping to develop a more realistic, appropriate, and enforceable ordinance. <br /> If there possibly can be a benefit to this traumatic and expensive ordeal, it is that Katula <br /> has added to her family of friends and well wishers. They, as I, feel confident that in the final <br /> analysis, Katula's genetics, breeding, and upbringing will continue to be reflected in her gentle <br /> and loving nature -- and it is, after all, behavior with which we are concerned, is it not? <br /> From time to time over the last two plus years I have been asked to volunteer my <br /> professional services and opinions in support of Orange County's Animal Control Office, and I <br /> always have enjoyed the company, intellect, concern and dedication of the Animal Control staff. I <br /> look forward to resolving this situation to everyone's advantage. But I implore you, too, for <br /> timely consideration. No sensitive being can suffer the confinement and severing of home and <br /> family ties without consequence. Please help us to minimize these negative consequences. <br /> Thanks for all your time, consideration and effort. <br /> 41 // <br /> ill 1 Or , , __,.....___ <br /> ohn S Coleman <br />