From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

TYLER, Texas–Two pit bull terrier attack fatalities in 15
days appear to have put momentum behind retired Tyler district judge
Cynthia Stevens Kent’s campaign to ban pit bull terriers in the state
of Texas.
Both fatalities came within 20 miles of Tyler. Both came
after Kent in September 2010 won a record $7 million liability award
in another local fatal attack case, and after repeated courtroom
failures of Lillian’s Law, a “punish the deed not the breed” statute
passed by the Texas legislature in 2007.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

DES LACS, N.D.–Grandfather clauses are a common feature of
animal control ordinances, included to ease the passage and initial
enforcement of provisions excluding poultry, livestock, exotic
pets, horses, or dogs of high-risk breed.
The underlying hope of a grandfather clause is that animals
who already live in a community when an ordinance is passed will be
minimally problematic if they are not replaced or augmented by others.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2010:
(Actual press date November 3.)

ST. LOUIS–Missouri voters on November 2, 2010 approved
Proposition B, to increase regulation of dog breeders, by a margin
of more than 60,000 votes.
Won by a coalition called Missourians for the Protection of
Dogs, Proposition B was backed by the Humane Society of the U.S.,
the Humane Society of Missouri, the Best Friends Animal Society,
and the American SPCA. It requires dog breeders who keep 10 or more
breeding dogs to provide dogs with larger cages that allow them
freedom of movement, with access to opportunities for outdoor
exercise; prohibits keeping dogs on wire floors and in stacked
cages; and mandates that every dog in a breeding kennel of 50 or
more dogs must receive an annual veterinary examination. Ill or
injured animals must receive prompt treatment. Breeders will not be
allowed to keep more than 50 breeding dogs.

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