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Camas City Council could add bite to city’s existing dog law

If approved, ordinance change would punish repeat offenders by revoking their dog license

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Former Camas-Washougal Animal Control Officer Rick Foster (right) visits dogs at the West Columbia Gorge Humane Society with volunteer Anne Fromm in 2014. The city of Camas is considering an ordinance change that would revoke a dog owner's dog license if the owner repeatedly broke the city's aggressive-dog ordinance rules.

It was mid-2019 and the frustration over two runaway dogs had been building in one Northwest Camas neighborhood for nearly 18 months.

The story seemed to be on repeat: the dogs, two pitbulls, would escape from their yard and run around the area, charging toward neighbors late at night, injuring at least one small dog and killing a pet chicken. Neighbors would call the police or animal control, but the dogs’ owner would get his pets back, only to have the process repeat again a few days or weeks later.

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