good afternoon my name is Brena Deran and I'll serve as the special magistrate for code enforcement uh for the city of Jacksonville Beach um this is the hearing on a dangerous dog
investigation um the um matter numbers are CCR number 2400 0 2053 and 25 0000751
uh regarding a dog named Dr seuss um I'll turn it over to our clerk to read The announcements please the purpose and function of the Jacksonville Beach special magistrate hearing in accordance with Florida statutes chapter
162 in the city of Jacksonville Beach code of ordinances is to reach an equitable expedition to enforce the codes the city presents the violation and evidence to the special magistrate next the property owner is sworn in and responds to the violation and evidence
both the city and the property owner may call witnesses to provide sworn testimony relevant to the case this is a quasi judicial hearing not a public forum individuals not called as sworn witnesses will not be heard oh thank you very much so we'll
proceed today the um the uh animal control will make a presentation um and u then anyone uh I understand are you Mr ran okay thank you um and then Mr iran and then
other people will be allowed to speak um and um if there's anyone here to speak on this matter including the officers and Mr dan if you're going to speak on the matter uh the clerk will uh swear
you in please so anybody who thinks that they may speak today uh needs to stand and be sworn so that your sworn so that your testimony is sworn testimony swear them after what
you want to swear them in when they come out okay then do you want to do uh one at a time is that what you want to do okay fair enough sorry i apologize we'll swear you in as you
speak so if you would uh Miss Crush please please proceed please raise your right hand do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to help you God yes please
state your name and position isis craig Jacksonville Beach animal control officer please proceed so our first interaction with Dr mr sus or Miss Doran at all was on June 10th excuse me can you get the mic a little
bit closer um so that everyone can hear including me is that better better little bit testing yes perfect so our first interaction with Dr seuss or Miss Doran
was on June 10th 2024 animal Control was made aware of a series of incidents involving a German Shepherd dog named Dr seuss owned by Miss Doran uh at the time the location was 1412 First Street North unit 309 the
complainant lived across the hall in unit 308 and our first complainant at the time was Miss Burns so Miss Burns complained that Dr seuss was frequently off leash which caused her to not feel safe when leaving her house burns
claimed that Dr seuss had previously attacked her boyfriend's dog inside their own residence and at the time there was several lifestyle changes that Miss Burns had to make resulting that altercation um one such uh change that
Miss Burns had to make is she was no longer able to babysit her boyfriend's dog any time that he went out of town due to the aggression that Dr seuss has shown towards the dog burns further claimed that she needed to buy a Ring camera for her front door so that she could check if Dr seuss was outside
before she enters or leaves her unit since he displays aggressive behavior towards her in the halls by barking and lunging she additionally stated that if she does know that Dr seuss is outside by viewing her Ring camera then she's not able to enter or leave her unit
because he will charge her front door the uh as a result of that complaint we did have two more complainants from the same condo come forward um the additional complaintants were Mr blackwell and Mr brinley also residing at that same condo
both of their complaints were that Dr seuss they have observed for him to be off leash both in the condo on First Street and on the beach proper uh at the time that resulted in just the civil citation for Dr seuss
being off leash and there was no aggressive dog behavior investigation our second case involving Dr pursues on our most recent case was on March 7th 2025 so this year and it
was involving a dog bite incident that occurred at 1412 First Street North the victim of the dog bite was Olivia Rodrigue she stated that she was bitten by Dr seuss while she was walking through the parking lot of the complex uh Rodrigue stated she observed
for Dr to be running down the stairs dragging a leash on the ground with the owner several you know a good distance behind him but not physically holding the leash and Rug Breed stated that when she saw Dr seuss she stopped and Dr
seuss approached her and bit her twice once on the back of the arm and on the back of the right hip right arm and right hip uh Doran was able to regain control of Dr see once she caught up with him
and after that there was a report made three other complainants came forward after that incident stating that they also believe that Dr seuss has engaged in aggressive behavior and other facets uh the first complainant was Miss
Bullard she stated that she's previously been charged by Dr seuss at the beach physically on the beach as well as in front of her unit door she lives on the first floor on you know 107 she says that she frequently sees the dog off leash and she fears for both her and her
dog safety the second complainant who submitted an affidavit was Miss Rod or was Miss Rodriguez as well um and as well as Miss Black Mr blackwell mr blackwell stated he observed for Dr to
be off leash several times and he was afraid that his aggressive behavior would result in some sort of lawsuit against the condo association due to the amount of incidents that they were hearing about the final person that completed an affidavit for that incident
was Miss Burns she lives right across the hall and again stated that Dr seuss has bitten her dog which she had already mentioned to us before and that she's also been cornered by Dr seuss on more than one occasion in the halls and Dr
seuss has also bared his teeth growled and lunged at her previously so based on the evidence and statements that we were given and the most recent bite we did determine that he does Dr seuss has displayed aggressive behavior and is willing to
bite a person and approach people in a menacing fashion which has resulted in us uh recommending that Dr see is declared a dangerous dog i know that u part of the package that you provided u to me initially um
included several um sworn statements um I just want to confirm that whether or not everybody that you mentioned that I I know that I um let me just read to you the ones that I have i have the one from uh Miss
Rodriguez i want have one from Alexis Bullard Mr uh Richard Blackwell and Sophie Burns are those the ones that Yes okay and those are all the ones that you mentioned yes that I gave during your testimony is that correct okay thank you
very much um I don't have any other questions for you um and we we do have some people that here that do want to speak so if we want to do it after yes okay thank you i'll let uh Miss Duran speak now and
then we'll take um other people from uh the who are here uh to participate excuse me you have to move over to the podium and be sworn in first okay please raise your right hand do you
swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to help you God yes please state your name and address rebecca Doran 2680 Bon Bon Adventure Avenue Jacksonville 32250 you may proceed um may I approach the
bench as I do have documents gathered for you okay you have some documents i do do you have more than one copy yes I do okay would you give one to uh the animal control officer please and then one to me please and do you have a third
one um I do not okay i'll provide my copy to the clerk when we're done i'd like to hold on to at least one copy for my notes but that's okay is this everything everything i'm I'm just going to look
through them briefly please thank you okay i have not had a chance to look at everything but I'm assuming that you're going to be discussing each of the documents you provided i do plan to so ma'am okay please proceed um I don't have a copy in front of me right now so
I'm sorry i can I don't have I do not have a copy in front of me right now so if you could um according to K Oh you don't have a copy no ma'am um um I just I copy oh so I have something to wrap thank you
very much okay well then I'm going to continue to read until she comes back thanks Thank you very much for doing that okay you may proceed okay so referencing case ending in 053 dog off
leash there has been numerous occasions where Sophie Burns herself has a dog her boyfriend's dog a big Doberman pincher who has been seen off leash but yet that has not been reported by myself nor my mother her big her boyfriend's Doberman
Pinter has also jumped on my 82-year-old mother um who has stability issues with handicap but that also was not reported so I find it just um a little um biased if you would say could you tell me when
that occurred um that occurred in the um back last year May of last year June of last year but the dog the the Doberman Doberman who is Miss Miss Sophie's Burns
boyfriend's dog yes and it's a large dog um when Sophie Burns claims that Dr seuss um attacked her dog it was a hot summer day i had a hot summer day and I
had just gotten back from the beach dr susan and I play fairly actively on the beach we run miles down the beach we play ball um and I as I was attending to him and washing him down Sophie Burns approached me with her dog her
boyfriend's dog and wanted to um our dogs to befriend each other and this was not the right time nor the right occasion to do so so my dog merely Why was it what was Because my It was excessive heat my dog um was tired he
was thirsty it was 95 degrees outside uh he it was just not the perfect right time to make friends with dogs my dog did not attack her dog there was no visible marks i even asked Sophie Burns
um if I could see or if there were any marks and she replied with why don't you look yourself I said that is not my dog at that time um her and I had a few words and then from then on from that day on it has been harassment and
constant um issues with her and and when and that was in May of I believe so your honor May June July it was the Okay um okay i'd also like to state that Miss Burns
has sent over 50 plus videos to animal control um over the past uh year or actually was a period of three months um day in day out i could buy animal controls
um demeanor i could see that this was kind of an annoyance to them but they had to do what they had to do therefore I got cited um with a $50 citation which I which I paid willingly um with no issue there um what was the citation for
um no le no leash on my dog now the way the way the condo is situated so my mother she had um she has gone through some medical issues and I was there with her to um rehabilitate her and so therefore I lived with her for quite
some time and um and when um so the way the condo is situated there's my mom's door and then Miss Burns is directly adjacent from my mom
and my dog I mean I I didn't h there would be times where I wouldn't have the leash on in my hand that the leash would be on my dog's neck but I would therefore easily grab the leash and walk the rest down the hallway
um just because I walked out of the door without the leash in hand does not mean that my dog was off leash the entire time but she continuously said sent 50 plus videos which um significantly contributed to this ongoing harassment
case okay go ahead in reference to case number uh 2500751 the alleged animal bite um the injury described in this case was not a bite but merely a scratch um the photo
evidence clearly shows a superficial marking inconsistent with a bite there were no puncture wounds or broken skin my um I play with my dog all the time and I get scratches and my sister who will um attest here very shortly she
also is a dog boarder who has scratches all over her that doesn't mean that it deems a dangerous dog um so for the report to conclude that it was a dog bite when it wasn't it wasn't thoroughly investigated um raises issues to
me i also feel that animal control didn't follow up with the in-person inspection um after the required 10-day quarantine it was as if it was case closed um this was therefore this was after the quote unquote
bite um there was no thorough investigation done by animal control it was more hearsay from what the cop uh reported every cop reported that it was a bite um when clearly when you look at it it shows it's a scratch the second
page of the scratch looks like an old scratch um so I don't I don't even know if that would be something to consider as part of this incident um
also the um so yes I uh the investigation I believe lacked thoroughess because there was actually no reason no evidence um that Dr seuss has bitten anyone never ever has he bitten any person at
all uh I'd like to take this case into an ongoing harassment and privacy violation there are numerous photos including miners um that were taken and sent to animal control and where else who knows where they went um if you look
at photo of me walking on the beach um it's funny because they want to claim that Dr seuss is an aggressive dog but yet you see a woman and her child walking toward Dr seuss and petting Dr seuss where are
the photos of that of Dr seuss who's being ped by um people on the beach he is a very welltrained well-mannered German Shepherd um who does not uh approach anybody at the beach or show any aggression at the beach um it has
come to my conclusion that this is mainly um based in the condo where these incidents may occur um as far as the harassment and privacy violations
um there's been defamation of character at one of at my place of business there's a I ran into a tenant um who I don't believe is here today but I was informed by him that the um residents of the San Pablo uh
condominium have created a petition against me and my mother and that me and my mother were hated uh which is defamatory and this really uh is significant in my mother's place of residence Um also Sophie Burns and Richard
Blackwell have continued to surveil me taking photos and videos without consent um it's just been relentless it's I have to watch my back every time I come and visit my mother my mother absolutely loves Dr seuss um he's more of a he's a
a service animal in a way to many um especially to my mother recovering from cancer and you know now that I um am no longer I just don't want to face the battle and being
um put in that situation as I have been over the past year i've decided to no longer um take him there my mother is very um saddened by that but it is what it is um so in my closing remarks your honor uh I'd like to just state that
even though Dr seuss he might be a large dog but he is a non-aggressive dog as mentioned he has never in his life bitten anybody he is he saved children on the beach practically there was a child who was practically drowning um last summer and Dr seuss went to go save
that child i hardly think that an aggressive dog would do something of that matter he's deeply loved um everybody approaches him on the beach everybody wants to pet him he's around my He's around infants two-year-olds adults i mean everybody he's I've
circles create around us at the beach because he's just so loving and loving naturatured in the way we play together um it's just a beautiful beautiful um scene to see by all and uh I've never had any other issues with anybody other
than the people in the condo okay i have a couple questions sure how long do you own Dr seuss five years and um how old was Dr seuss when you got him three months old and I have trained him 247 he was a
um a co dog also he's what a COVID so I worked remotely um so I spent 247 with him um training him working with him um so he has he does have rain i will admit
that he has what rain he but he is very um well-mannered due to my training i still didn't catch that word um he has what freedom he has freedom i'm not sure exactly what you
mean i'm not sure exactly how to put that i mean he is all you know he's he's on the beach and he runs with me i I you know he chases birds and runs through the water um I'm I'm I'm not chasing
birds um uh is your mom going to speak today yes she is okay i have some questions for her okay wonderful um and uh could you tell me about the uh address the Bonaventure Avenue
address uh I understand that's in Jacksonville Beach is that correct correct technically yes and could you yes um and could you tell me um uh is what is that a condominium or single family residence or what it's a um it's
a trailer park i had to I was forcefully evicted um due to the issues arising um and I could no longer take care of my mother post her chemo during her chemo treatment so I um had to move
forcefully i couldn't take it anymore due to the harassment so I forcefully had to move and I took the first thing that came up and how long have you lived at Bon Adventure uh since June of last year
and I have had no issues there your honor and prior to moving to Bonaventure where did you live with my mother at 1412 First Street North 309 and and how long did you
When you got Dr seuss were you living with your mother at the time no um I was living with my mother when I started living with my mother when Dr seuss turned four soap about a year and
a half after a year and a half ago so that would be um late 23 that sounds or October of 2023 is when you moved in that sounds about right yes okay
and um where did you live before you moved in with your mom i was living in Neptune Beach with u my former fiance okay and I there I had no problems was it a single family residence uh it
was a condo not a condo it was a duplex like a townhouse kind of thing mhm okay that's all I have for you at the moment thank you okay so at this time you you may be seated thank you um at this time
I apparent to me that we have several people who want to speak um perhaps um let me ask you this how many people uh uh want to speak on behalf of and in
support of the animal control u situation so I see three hands is that right four okay and then who how many I'm just trying to gauge how we're going to do it and then how many want to speak
on behalf of Mr dan three okay so I think what we'll try to do is just group them and um and then at at the
very end I'll let everybody speak on the animal control then everybody speak on uh Mr rant side and then um we can have any kind of uh anything in closing that anybody wants to uh I shouldn't say
anybody and Miss Crash or Miss Duran want to say at the very end and um and I think that's probably the best way if you guys if anybody who didn't already raise their hand decides they want to
speak that's fine too just you know indicate I'll try to remember to ask if there's anybody else if I don't you know jump up and let me know so um I think we'll start with um people who
um uh want to speak on behalf of or in support of the animal control officers uh position so if you want to whoever wants to speak first we'll try to get everybody in
i'll go first okay thank you if you just um um be sworn in and do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God i
do please state your name and address karen Blackwell 1412 First Street North number 208 Jack Speech 32250 thank you very much are you related to Mr richard Blackwell i am but I'm sort of here more on the homeowners association at this point are you an
officer with the HOA here today so Excuse me are you an officer with the HOA i'm the president you're the president okay and what was the name of the HOA again for my record north Pablo Beach Condo Association
okay thank you very much miss Blackwell you may proceed so really I just want to make two points i don't know anything of this petition that she spoke about earlier and secondly all the homeowners association is asking for is a dog not be allowed on our property
miss um Rebecca have even had conversations during a board meeting regarding the dog she's had conversations with you it was during a board meeting the dog was brought up so okay and when was that about uh I'm
going to say October's meeting maybe October November's meeting i would have to check for sure but I did not intend to be at this meeting here in Floyd we were hoping who is the actual management company but she couldn't make it so I unfortunately don't have those minutes with me but we could get them if you
needed them that's okay what What do you Were you at the meeting yes it was via Zoom okay and what was said do you recall what was said um it was generally speaking yeah it was basically Karen Floyd was letting this Rebecca know that
um there were issues with the dog and ultimately the dog issues were going to result probably in some sort of issues for her and she was even sent a letter from the homeowners association lawyer did you ever see the letter Miss Black i
did see it recently when all this was coming about we didn't request it okay do you kind of just generally speaking recall it was just another warning letter basically does the
um Does the condo association have any rules about dogs it does and and could you tell me what generally what the rules are it does um just state that there should be no aggressive dogs living in the
condo association and that you have to be the owner of the property in order to maintain a dog and one last question about the rules do you think those rules are part of the um covenants and restrictions the recorded
restrictions or are those just kind of like bylaws yeah I believe they are part of the coveted restrictions you think they are i I do okay okay that's all I had okay thank you so very much for being here
who's next hello hi please raise your right hand do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to help you God yes please state your name and address olivia Rodriguez 1412 First Street North
Apartment 109 thank you for being here you may proceed thank you um I just wanted to talk about the night that I got bit um I was coming back at 8:30 p.m excuse me could you speak a little bit closer to the mic
sorry um I was coming home at 8:30 p.m and with my friend and I saw Dr coming down the stairs running down the stairs um with his leash on but it was not in control of the owner and so I just stopped and I didn't keep going
anymore and then Dr seuss got to the end of the staircase and I was waiting for the owner to grab hold of the leash but before she did um he lurched at me and bit me on the back of my arm and on my hip and I do have pictures of it it was over a jean jacket and it still did
break skin and I did seek medical advice um and that's kind of all I have to say did Did the dog bark also when he l When you said he lunged at you was he barking in addition or just running towards you
and No he just ran towards me and bit my arm pulled on my arm and then bit my hip okay um and that was Well sorry i guess he did bark when he like came at me and bit me he barked and then but no like
warning signs before it and that was um just so I'm to be certain that was the um I just want to make sure I've got the correct
date that was Was that on March the 7th yes um or thereabouts march the 7th march 7th yeah at 8:30 p.m okay and where were
you standing you were in um our condo by before you get to the staircase there's a parking lot and before I I was kind of in between cars in the parking lot so probably seven feet away from the dog stopped before he ran at me
okay and um Okay i don't have any other questions for you thank you thank you okay who's next please raise your right hand do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is the truth the whole truth and nothing
but the truth to help you god I do please state your name and address sophie Burns 1412 First Street North Unit 308 um I didn't really prepare anything to say i was coming more to just listen but
as far as what was said about the first incident where my dog was bit my now fiance's dog um I don't think that was totally the truth there i was just coming back from walking him i was going to go up the stairs to go to our
condo her dog was off leash per usual yes leech around the neck never holds the actual leash that's not in control of the dog per the law um and he came and bit the bit our dog so I was not trying to
introduce them i already knew that he was an aggressive dog and um I guess I just kind of have a couple questions like are we taking into account the video evidence of how aggressive he acts and when he's off leash are we using all that as well as
the photos of Olivia's bites i don't have the videos i have the um I have the photographs i have several photographs but I don't have the videos oh you do have the videos i just want to make sure those are seen because it displays his
aggression and it's very clear that he is an aggressive dog he has bit people and I just want to make sure that is very known like we ended up moving because it was it was horrible living conditions i mean our door was right
across we still own the condo of course but we moved you don't live there anymore no do you still live in the assoc in the condo somewhere or No we moved relocated are you still in Jack's Beach yep
um and so the did the dog is your your boyfriend's dog the Doberman that was referred to yes and um uh did did that dog ever actually live with you in the condo at at Pablo at the
North Pablo Doberman right yes so my fiance they have owned this condo for um maybe eight years now so So he's the dog has lived there the dog has always lived there yeah okay and then um if anything I'm newer yeah you're the new person
yeah okay got it um so so maybe you could just I'm just trying to get a feel for about how long that Could you tell me that dog's name the pincher's name duke duke okay how long had Duke been living there um um so he got him when he was eight weeks and
he's five now okay so he lived he's lived there his whole life until we moved at the end of February okay of this year okay I will want to see the video yeah there's plenty of video and um where the
video is directed so it's a Ring C Ring doorbell camera it's common property like it's it's in the condominium association no and are so it the videos are you produced the videos from your Ring camera is that correct yeah okay
and I did again I got the Ring camera Ring doorbell camera so that I could go in and out more easily because I was not wanting to run into the dog right who did in fact bite Olivia pretty badly she was wearing denim so thank God for that
but he got her good and and he's shown many signs of aggression over whatever year year and a half two years whatever it was made a really difficult living situation and I went to the board I went to the management I went to animal
[Music] control um and just the consideration was incredible it made it hard for everyone to live especially us being that our front door was three feet from theirs and it's in a
dead end corner so okay we ended up moving okay um I don't have any other questions right now okay thank you okay uh are there others please raise your right hand do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is
the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to help you God to help me God yes please state your name and address my name is Richard Blackwell i'm at 1412 First Street North apartment 208 Jack Beach
thank you very much you may proceed okay my first encounter with the dog was basically one time I come home I'm getting ready to walk up the stairs and there's nothing but a big puddle of pee at the bottom of the stairs that is when I come to realize that what she would do
is just let the dog go let it run downstairs use the bathroom wherever it wanted to so be it uh the problem I have in a way is that the basic law is keep your dog on a leash we even have a sign in our yard that says keep the dog off
the leash obviously she doesn't want to abide by the rules in the condo because she doesn't own it she doesn't have any say in it but it's her rules it's what she wants to do she also solves those rules by just letting the dog run across
her street over to the beach she's even confessed to a point that she has a dog out on the beach with no leash now don't we have an ordinance that says you're supposed to have your dog on the leash when you're on the beach so she's basically showing us that the laws don't
abide to her she also when she goes out she talks about playing with the dog with the tennis balls well the next thing you know she comes back we got tennis balls all over our yard because she don't want to pick him up on top of everything else um I just want to say if she would have
kept her dog on a leash we wouldn't have got to this point we're only at this point and it's taken a year and a half to two years to get here so we've tried to do our due diligence about this and if you have any questions I'm more than happy to answer them
i don't have any questions thank you thank you is there anyone else that would like to speak in support of the animal controls uh position at this time okay then we'll move uh to your
witnesses Miss Durant um please raise your right hand do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to help you God yes I do please state your name and address rebecca Terrones 14581 Herwood Court
Jacksonville Florida 32258 and I apologize but I did not catch your name remember Rebecca yes ma'am is that your last name or your first name that's my first name rebecca Terrones is my entire name
okay you may proceed thank you um I go to get my I believe you have a copy of my affidavit but I can uh site from it as well so I am the sole proprietor of a dog boarding business for the last 5
years the name of it is Forever by Your Side LLC forever what forever by your side LLC forever by your side correct that is my personal dog boarding business i am also a 1099 employee of Rover which
is a dog boarding app and I also work as a 1099 employee for uh dog dog days and catnaps so through three programs I bore dogs for the last five years how long uh you had the Forever by Your
Side LLC for three years and uh do you do the dog and pet or animal care in your home yes I do okay please proceed so I would like to share that through this experience of
dog boarding that I have had and I board them in my home and I've had multiple experience with different dogs of different sizes breeds temperaments um you know I have them for sometimes two weeks at a time or a couple of days at a time i have them in a household
with me and my three children as well as our resident dog our resident cat and our fish um but what I can say is that I can attest to the fact that Dr seuss who I have boarded on many occasions over
the last 5 years he is one of the most gentle and loyal dogs that I've actually have experience with i have pictures of him cuddling and sleeping with my children even when they were at the tender age of five he is not an aggressive dog i have never feared for
my children's safety in his presence i've never feared for my other animals safety in his presence in fact they get along really well um I have unfortunately had an experience where I had another dog that I was boarding he took the life of our family cat we used
to have two now we only have one and through this I have truly recognized what a dangerous dog is and Dr seuss is far from that um I would also like to mention and this is just my opinion that
I don't really believe that this is necessarily about Dr seuss and his behavior i feel like I have had experience with the people that are in this room over the last few years and I almost feel for lack of a better words that they're showing a bully mentality a
what a bully mentality my mother has resided at the residence since 2002 2003 and I have firsthand experience of Mr blackwell walking up to the my mom's vehicle and yelling at her in front of my grand my children her grandchildren
for other matters i have seen this harassment go on for a long time now um also I would like to speak to Excuse me sure is it your mother or She's my mother rebecca Duran is my mother are
you sisters yes oh okay do you recall what Mr blackwell said to your mother i don't because it was maybe eight years ago it It's just It's been this ongoing tension between them and my
mother i don't know cuz my mom wanted to be on the board um she was on the board I think at one point she requested that they install a handicap ramp because my mother cannot walk good and they refused her of that so there's always just kind
of been it it's not for the good of the people in the condominium it's more of a I think a power control amongst them and I feel like they gathered with this petition and this hatefulness and I think I mean even as as she was speaking they were in the in your courtroom
mocking her and laughing so this is not the kind of behavior of people who genuinely have a concern of somebody's health it's more so they're just out to get hurt i feel like no matter what um in terms of the Doberman pitcher I think
she said the name was Duke i had an experience where my was visiting my mother's home as she came home from the hospital from treatment from cancer treatment my sister had to go to work cuz my sister was the one that was taking care of my mom during this this
treatment process since I live at a distance plus I have three children that are in school so my sister has been living with my mother taking care of her through this really troublesome time and my mom my mother called me and said that Dr seuss needed to use a restroom cuz
she was working so I went over to my mother's house i brought Dr who's down the stairs on a leash and as he was urinating in the grass not on concrete where people walk but in the grass the Doberman pincher was with the gentleman
the owner and that dog actually approached really aggressively and started barking at Dr seuss super aggressively barking and at one point I even said to the gentleman "Control your dog." because I was terrified that I was now going to have to deal with a an
animal fight with amongst two big dogs because of the way the Doberman pitcher approached uh so I'm not sure if it's accurate when do you think that that happened um I would say that was probably three years two years ago um yeah I would say it was probably
around Well maybe around 2023 actually it was and so you had Dr seuss in the grass correct at the time yes and was Dr seuss did you have the dog leash i did have him on the leash so and and the Duke was also on a leash he was also on
the leash and he was barking and he was pulling the owner and he kept barking and it said "What was Dr seuss doing?" Also barking back yes um but when I yelled "Control your dog." I was wondering why is this gentleman not walking up the stairs or pulling you
know pulling the dog away why is he allowing this to to continue um I was he was walking on the side of the stairs and I was on the side of the grass which is on the other side of the parking lot and so in order for me to take Dr seuss up the stairs to my mother's condo that
means that I would have had to walk in the same path as the other dog so I was saying "Control your dog." And he didn't bring him upstairs and he allowed it to to continue on for about 3 minutes that was extremely uncomfortable and scary so I don't think that Dr seuss is the only
dog in the condominium um this this dog here has shown aggression towards Dr seuss and to me personally when you're looking at a large doberman pinchion who a pincher who's showing aggression I was scared that my children were going to get hurt in the pro in the process of
it um let's see i also um I have notes um also I know that they mentioned that they had multiple videos and pictures of Dr seuss coming in and out of the entryway of my mother's household however a majority of those pictures
have pictures of my children on the camera i was not provided a consent form i was actually extremely upset to know that these pictures were being sent either to animal control or to wherever else pictures and images of my children
um there was no permission requested uh to have to film private videos of my children going in and out of my mother's house to visit the grandmother and so when we had the door open and Dr seuss would come out the door and he would greet my myself and my
children and then he would go right back inside and those videos are the ones that I'm sure she sent because it's her the dog is just walking out and greeting my children and then going back in so he's not technically on a leash for those few seconds but he walked right back in the house with us
have you seen the videos i have seen the v I've seen the pictures and the videos cuz my mother also has a Ring camera so the same thing that they're sending is something that my my mother's Ring camera is picking up as well okay and also I can attest that I
have also seen them walk in their house with Duke the Doberman Pincher not on the leash trailing behind the gentleman that lives there i've also seen that on a Ring camera uh on the Ring video it's it's not it ring gets like blink but I've seen that on there so I just think
that it's very hypocritical as to what they're complaining about today um also I feel like I cannot guarantee that they're providing the actual representation because I was under the impression that Mr steven Adams was the president of the HOA not
Miss Blackwell so I'm not sure if that's even an accurate position of hers i'm sorry what miss Blackwell she claimed that she was the president of the HOA but it was my understanding that it was actually It's actually Mr steven Adams who mr steven Adams i think she falsely
What makes you think that um because with research I'm just the only reason that I mention that is because I think it attests to the characters that they are that they're constantly providing false information um also in my notes I have that I uh saw the picture of the scratch
marks on the lady who claimed that she got bit being a dog boarder for over 5 years I have personally been bit i have had skin broken where they it scarred um I'm glad to see that she's healed nicely cuz I didn't see any scars on her elbow
i have currently scratches on myself from other dogs that I have boarded i have not brought it to the level of complaining to the owner because they are dogs they're not humans they're going to jump and scratch um they don't scratch intentionally they just jump up and with their paws and nails it causes
scratch marks sometimes and um my dog my own dog has scratched my mom's arm just out of trying to jump up and be loving and that scarred so I um after seeing the pictures of the um I think Miss Rodrigo Rodriguez uh after
seeing her pictures to me it did it looked nowhere near a bite it was definitely all scratch marks just from the weight of the dog jumping on her skin um that there was no broken skin there um let's see if I had
any um okay so I think um just to kind of finish summarize what I'm saying is that I think Dr seuss is a is a really intelligent dog and he's very loving i'm I love the fact that when my mother was
going through her troublesome times of her cancer treatment that this dog would bring her love and comfort and he would lay at her feet when she wasn't feeling good and brought her that warmth and and joy that she needed at that time of
feeling defeat um again I I happy to show pictures of the do of Dr seuss cuddling with my children he lays in the bed with them um he's over for Christmas he's over for holidays we cherish him and uh I definitely would not have a
dangerous dog over at my house especially even leaving the dogs unsupervised if I took my children out of the house or if we if I took them to school um some dogs that I feel are a little bit more temperamental I will lock up my cat in another room i will
make sure my dog is okay or sometimes even cage them if I need to but when Dr see is there i am ve very comfortable with my cat running free my other dogs there my children there so I definitely do not have any fear for this dog and I
I just feel like this is not so much more of a a discussion of them having a problem with the dog more so if it's just a personal matter and this is their way to try to make it personal oh the only question I've got is could
you tell me generally the age of your children yes my oldest is 13 10 and eight okay thank you and we have been with Dr seuss for the last five years okay thank you absolutely thank you ma'am i appreciate the time okay
hello hi Brian Margolus please raise your right hand do you swear Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to help you God yes please state your name and address brian Margolus uh 222 14th Avenue North unit
202 J Beach 32250 um just to be clear you don't It's a different address you're not I'm a family friend you're a family friend yes but you don't live in the same condo no one block away association
okay you may proceed okay i'm a just family friend and I've known uh Becca and Dr seuss for over three years almost four years now and uh he is a very nice dog i never had any problems with him i go to the beach with them watch him play
ball up and down kids people everybody comes up they want to throw the ball with him pet him he's very nice dog and uh I think that um I don't know if I can comment on some of the comments made earlier you're it's sworn testimony you
can Okay seems to me like a lot a lot of uh the issues that were brought up is kind of speculative uh that oh I'm afraid to do this afraid to do that when nothing actually happened it's all hearsay from what I've heard the testimony from uh
the animal control side from the plaintiffs so and what I witnessed being a family friend and with Dr seuss he's a great dog i never had an issue with him at all um I see uh see him get along great with everyone and uh I think that
a lot of it like I said outside looking in it looks like more of a harassment situation where they're building a case when there was really nothing going on how often do are you around Dr seuss
let's say in the last year how how often do you think I'd say right now probably four times a week five times a week right now yes but over the course of the last year how about the same because I go uh with Becca we take them to the Brew Hound Dog Park uh over there off of
uh Main Court Road i don't know if you're familiar with that and there's plenty of dogs Dr seuss plays with everyone everyone loves him and if he was aggressive they wouldn't allow him on the property you know and uh I go there probably two three times a week
with him and he gets along fine with everyone so what's being brought up here is kind of news to me because I don't see it at all uh in his personality okay thank you and I I just wanted to throw that in there uh like I said I'm
not owner but I do spend a lot of time with him and he is a very good dog and also uh Becca is a very good owner he is he's very intelligent dog he listens very well if she says "Come here sit down." He sits down right away he uh
he's not running rampant wild like uh people are trying to make him seem like that uh since she spends a lot of time with him 247 she says something he listens right away you know I've never seen a dog that intelligent that
actually listens that well and uh that's all I have unless you have any questions for me i don't have any questions all right thank you thank you very much hello hello can you hear me okay yes I can hear you but you please raise your
right hand do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God i do please state your name and address rebecca Doran 1412 First Street North 309 Jack Beach Florida 32250
you may proceed okay um your honor I've I've been uh 38 years with criminal investigations with the federal government and I think I can detect what's criminal and what isn't and I have got to tell you my opin opinion of
this has been total harassment from the neighbors at where I live i have owned my condo for 21 years i have personally lived in it now for 14 years up until about 3 four years ago there
were no problems at all we had a beautiful place to live uh things changed i was on also the HOA board and I detected some personalities that I didn't want to deal with uh
because I'm not the property manager but by the way the property manager was told by Miss Blackwell that she ought to be fired this is the the property manager that owns the real estate okay and Karen Blackwell told her several years ago you
ought to be fired so we're looking at I think personalities we're looking at discrimination we're looking at you know just vindictiveness and and spitefulness um I would like to then check if you
have any questions on that your honor i'd go ahead and listen before I start something else okay okay um Dr seuss has been many times in my house matter of fact my daughter Rebecca when I was ill
uh she and Dr seuss maintained my condo for me and so that's that's why she was living there for a while during her tenure there um she came to me and she was telling me when I was recuperating
uh Mr blackwell said to her outside something about the dog uh this was going on and Mr blackwell said to her f you so this is kind of personalities that we're dealing with and you know I I
disrespect these people because of their treatment of my daughter it's been total harassment it's just total harassment i refuse to go on the board anymore i didn't submit my name i don't have anything to do because Miss Miss Karen
Blackwell is now on the board mr blackwell was on the board and there is a sense of I'm running this place and so I just said I'm not dealing with it i'm I'm just I stay by myself pretty much i
don't touch anybody i don't do anything wrong and as far as getting a letter from the attorney uh I was told by during a virtual meeting with the HOA well with with the
owners of the condos uh I was told that I was liable for her dog uh and and you know I'm going like what i'm liable uh if somebody would come and visit you and they wanted to start a fight with
someone else and they injured this other person would you then be liable you know so they're just not thinking these things through it's it's just a very quick you know jump on it it's a good opportunity to complain it's a good
opportunity to run my reputation down it's a good opportunity to complain plain complaint um it's harassment so um as far as my neighbor across the way thank God they have moved um the
gentleman is is nice he's super his dad owns a condo uh he was living there with Miss Burns uh for a while and I've got to say I had to install my a blink camera as well but most of the time I
had to keep it off because she was in and out of the condo 40 times a day and it was ringing up my blink camera and and my phone so I mean she was a busy body pretty much I think um as far as
the her dog is concerned or the gentleman's dog Duke uh on Christmas day is it on oh okay on Christmas Day uh Duke's honor uh the gentleman case was
walking down the hallway with the arm full of things and the dog was not on he did not have the leash in his hand so there are there are times that other people are don't have the leash in their hand it's understandable he couldn't
handle it that's okay i'm not complaining about that uh just about five weeks ago there was a lady who is the case I think it's Case's mom the the
son's mom uh was next door and as I was walking out she our our doors like this is their door and here's my door and I was walking out my door she was leaving
uh Sophie's door and she walked out the dog walked out by itself he wasn't on a leash either so my point is all of these people complaining that I've seen things i just didn't say anything i you know
I've uh have actually petted Duke many times i mean he doesn't do anything he's just kind of dog you know but compared to compared to Dr seuss there's no comparison dr seuss is highly
intelligent very very intelligent he will come into the house and first thing he does is come to me put his nose on me as if to say hello and then he walks off and does his thing but he's he's just such a sweet dog i mean I almost look at
him as another child so uh I that that's uh just in summary I agree with my daughter of Omecha who said there's not a sweeter dog and I as you know I've been around for a while since I did work in different
places different countries so I've had exposure to a lot of situations okay thank you i I Do you know about You said you'd been on the HOA board yes I have and um you said that about three or four years ago things changed was that
just part and parcel of when you were on the board i I don't want to get into necessarily No things changed because people certain people I'm going to go ahead and say it blackwells have taken over the HOA board pretty much and think they own the place
uh I did have some you and I'm an easygoing person and having worked with the government for 38 years I have to and as a supervisor manager I know how to treat people and and I with respect I
don't start businesses like that it's uh yeah I think that is that is the reason why I didn't want to go back on the board i'm not gonna fight people with that kind of mentality or disposition
okay and and so about how many do you recall how many units there are in the condominium 27 anything else i'm just looking at my notes just Yes you're there's another thing I'd
like to mention um Okay i think on the most recent incident with Dr sus uh we've had we have an elevator in the building it's certainly not accommodating to people who need walkers like me right now um and I mean it's
just there's no ramp there's nothing no handrails on steps walking up to the the landing or anything and during this time the elevator was out three month about three months and um the property owner
said well a property manager I'm sorry said to me I'll let you know when the elevator comes back in because she knows that I normally use my walker because I have also a bad knee uh nobody told us when the the elevator was going to be
fixed or anything other than uh not supposed to be up in a couple more weeks and a couple more weeks it wasn't finished well the the time that the incident happened with Seuss uh was supposedly scratching that lady the last
one um the elevator was out and my daughter had to take Seuss down the steps now he's like a 125 pound dog and I would I would not walk with a leash on with him down those steps because you
can't tell a dog to take one step at a time and walk at a human pace they run down the steps he would have pulled my daughter on her face down the steps she normally takes the elevator but the elevator was out so that t that one time
she did uh take Sue down the stairs but like you know was said earlier she has very good control over Seuss he listens to her explicitly and she'll say "Get down." Uh he won't be he'll bring her a
plate empty plate after he finishes his he'll pick up the plate if it's empty he'll take it to her like give me some more you know something else to eat he is this intelligent so anybody that wants to question that this dog is a a
vicious dog he definitely is not okay thank you i don't have any other questions questions yeah thank you thank you okay I see someone raising their hand um do is that because you'd like to speak
okay wasn't prepared to go please raise your right hand do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God yes please state your name and address doria Rodrigue 3618 East Drive
Jacksonville Florida 32224 and are you related yes I'm related to Olivia Rodrigue i'm her mother okay and um I just wanted to say on the date of the dog bite um that evening I was called by one of the neighbors that
lives in the building anna what is her last name miller anna Miller she's um a friend of ours we've met since my daughter's lived in the building since July of last summer um Anna called me pretty upset
and she said "I just want to let you know that Olivia has been bit by a dog." And I said "Okay." I said "Is she help me?" She said "She's hysterical but she's okay." Um but she luckily she was wearing a denim jacket she turned her back and she Anna explained to me
exactly what happened and I that then I spoke to Olivia olivia was upset but she was on the phone with the police the police department Jacksonville Beach police did respond to her apartment she did show the police officer the injury
and it's a bite and it's clearly a bite it's not a scratch it's pretty bad um and later on she got bruising and you could see the puncture the puncture wasn't really deep because she did have a denim jacket on but it started to
bruise even further so the following day she went to get medical treatment to get it evaluated by a doctor so anyways I'm just telling you what I heard from the phone call from the neighbor who witnessed right after immediately after it happened she walked
into the parking lot cuz she was walking Miss Blackwell's dog she was taking care of the dog because Mr as a black wool were out of town and Anna Miller came around the corner and it had just happened and Olivia was hysterical crying and that's when she took Anna
took pictures and said we need to call the police so that's all I have to say well thank you very much thank you okay i'm not I don't if there's somebody who has not spoken um then um I'd like to hear from them
but you know we are please raise your right hand do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God i do please state your name and address michael Walther 105 Trudy D Lane
formerly 1412 First Street North 308 across from And could you say your name again to It's Michael Walther i go by Case Walters w A L T H E R thank you just go whenever
yeah you may proceed oh thank you um I just want to say that the evidence is pretty clear i mean we've been sending in videos and there's been multiple bites there's been lies throughout and to just come up here and suggest that none of it has taken place when everyone
is on the same page that we just asked originally just keep the dog on a leash and it'll be fine but she refused to do that um it resulted in multiple people being bit it's we have video evidence of it happening of her constantly not
having the dog on the leash of lying to uh officers uh just for months and months i mean it really changed our quality of life at the condo and transparently we moved earlier on than we would have simply because we couldn't
take it anymore i mean Sophie couldn't watch our dog there alone cuz she'd be afraid she'd just have a run in with the dog and our dog get bit again um there's just completely outlandish lies that our dog was somehow aggressive or unleashed
or jumping on people just categorically false and to suggest up here like there's this big conspiracy that's just not factual we have all the video evidence of this behavior being constant that we'd be happy to reord we've sent
it to the uh animal control multiple times we I mean it's just been a persistent issue for years and really all that we wanted was the dog to be leashed because it was aggressive and they refused to believe that because their dog is nice to them in their own home and they're just delusional about
the reality um so that's just I just wanted to say my two cents because I think everybody would be at a disservice if this dog is back on the streets and get bite somebody else um and she's also clearly shown that she's not going to respect the rules the dog's already been
off leash at the beach with Olivia again here recently um so I just I just would appreciate taking the facts into consideration rather than this family just putting these lies together okay
thank you um I I don't want to hear from anybody who's already spoken okay that's that's um the um is there anybody that wants to speak that has not
spoken okay um at this time what I'd like to do is ask and uh Miss Crush have you viewed the videos do what
yes please thanks have you viewed the videos yes um do you can you give me an idea how many are we talking about so the total count of videos over the period of time that this case was open was probably over 50 videos we do have five of them in the
shared drive that we could view here and do any of them I'm I'm I'm respectful of of of none of them show any minor being in you know the video um and you know I
I want to know whether or not any of those have um any images of of children none of the videos that we have submitted for viewing here include any minors okay and
do you have any concerns about the videos because you didn't mention them to me to begin with but I'm just So the video the videos that we received mostly showed Dr seuss off leash either leaving or coming back to the residence there
are a couple videos that were sent that show Dr seuss charging at the front door of Miss Burns um there's also a couple videos of Dr seuss barking at people as they're walking through the hall when he is restrained on a leash and there I
think there are five videos that we have sent that we can view and do we have testimony of who took th those videos yes i may need to get
um Miss Rodriguez um to come back just to state that I I need to know who took the videos the videos were from the ring camera of Miss Burns who is he oh Miss Burns yes oh sorry wrong person okay
um after Okay i I don't You know how long do you think that the five will take to watch the videos are just snippets so I think each video is about 10 seconds so I'd
like 10 seconds long each yeah and I just want to testimony do we have dates when they were taken can you tell yes each video has a time stamp on the bottom right corner okay um I'm going to let them come in um as evidence
um but I will need Miss Burns to come back up and just what I'm going to ask you to do is watch the video that Miss Crusher is going to show and then I need you to
state for the record um that that the videos after you've seen them that to verify that they are the videos that you took from your Ring camera and you provided to the city okay and but I want
you to make I want you to watch them so that you can in fact confirm that okay okay beautiful heat heat [Music] cheers let's get over here oh could you stop for a moment could you
tell me what the date is of this one say it again january 16th 2024 okay thank you what's the date of that one march 13 2024 and what was the date of that last one
april 29th 2024 is that all five of them okay and um Miss Burns would you confirm that the five videos that we just saw that that please confirm that those are the ones that you took from
your condominium your residents um ring camera yes I confirm that and those are the ones that you provided to animal control those are five of the many many that I provided yes okay thank you very
much could I make a comment no okay i'm just trying to be fair to everybody okay and like I said at the beginning I would um you know allow both um uh Mr
dan to have some closing statement and then um I will ask um uh Miss Crush for the animal controls recommendation today um y one thing I did um fail to point out was the affidavit from the Brew
Hound and I believe my close friend here mentioned um all the numbers of times that we have been participating at the Brew Hound since 2020 if he was in fact a dangerous dog he would be banned from Brewhound um
they are very very particular about what type of dogs are allowed there um so I just want to point that out um but in my closing remarks I just want to make this easy and I think we all can be on the same page with this um we can certainly
understand from from my standpoint and my immediate family and my friends and from everybody else outside of the condo um that Dr seuss is not in fact a dangerous dog he is just a big dog um who happens to be a German Shepherd who
is protective um but I can make this easy for anybody and everybody my only ask is for him not to be deemed a dangerous dog and I am happy to comply with him just not with him being banned from the condo um if that is all it
takes in order for um for all this to suffice and then I am happy um with that i know there are a few different character types in here um as my mom mentioned um there are characters such
as the black wells who and I we have had uh he has definitely shown profanity against me but we passed that so I'm no longer going to touch on that um Dr seuss is the type of dog he runs away from confrontation he doesn't start
confrontation uh any dogs that come close to him he runs away and he as I mentioned earlier your magistrate he doesn't approach people um in an aggressive manner video you know shows him barking
but that's what dogs do um so that doesn't deem him a dangerous dog um yeah um that that um you know I on a certain matter or certain um
note the HOA the condo they do not have a ramp access so I know that if it's possible if we could get some ADA access from my mother there that would be great cuz right now she is holding on to a bush to climb up a step and um I don't
think that that is um what got what supposed to happen so and I know that you might be able to justify that but my closing remarks yes um Dr seuss is a big dog but he's not a
dangerous dog i'm happy to keep him away from the condo um as long as he is not deemed a dangerous dog he's my He's my everything he's the only thing that I
have um my best friend my He's the only thing my only thing that I've ever loved so I can't uh I can't imagine having him you know suffering with a nozzle and stuff over his mouth that's just not a
Dr seuss um trait and so I just can't I I just can't fathom that idea yeah i I do have some questions one did you get the letter that was sent by the HOA law i did you did get it yes what did it I
understand that it was a warning letter yes is that correct and um post that letter I did keep him on the leash um now granted prior to that land that letter um I did allow Dr su off leash
around there sure but post letter I did abide by the rules and I did keep him on the leash just right there in the vicinity of the where the front door is that's when I would let the leash go or
walk a few feet before grabbing my wish um my hands might have been full just because I don't have an answer to that um it was just a a natural thing i mean
he's you know just been well behaved um so I just didn't find it necessary but post the letter I did buy by by the rules when did you get the letter um I actually have the
letter the letter dates May 10th 2024 and so on So but but both of the actions that are noted here are after that letter one was June 10th which actions and then the one
just this past month was March of 2025 which actions are actions are you referring to the two that are in the um Oh in the report um well yes because from the letter um I I took it as on
property so I kept him on leash on property but I was still being photographed off property without leash um so while it was on property incidents were on property that I'm referring to the this the
um June 10th of 24 and the March 7th of 25 uh so the March 7th of 25 that was because the elevator was broken and I could not use the elevator i could not use the leash um with the elevator and
then the um first one is is referencing walking in and out of the door uh without the leash okay um I don't have any other questions thank you
miss Crash would you I'd like to We've heard all the evidence i'd like to hear what the city's um recommendation is at this point so just for a clarification on new address so Miss Doran your new address
is not east of the ICW correct wait I can't hear your question her new address the Bonaventro Avenue I believe is not east of the ICW correct of the bridge is it over the
bridge over the bridge so it would not be in our jurisdiction it's not within Jacksonville Beach so the zip code is still 32250 but it is not it is not our correct
so okay just just to Hold on i'm losing my voice excuse me so I apologize i'm not sick sorry i apologize okay please um okay i
appreciate that clarification because that is going to be important uh where um where the dog is currently living i one moment mr dan is your dog living with you on Bone
Adventure now then I have a couple of questions about it um you said that is there any um yard associated with your Bonaventure residence yes and is it um is it
currently fenced it is not but um I do keep them there is I made a um a leash thing that goes from tree to tree and he is on leash at all times say that again you It's a dog run it's a
dog run mhm from tree to tree yeah with leash attached between trees correct adjacent to your to your residence yes right in front of my front yard yes angie is much happier there okay thank you okay i apologize
for interrupting um but I did want to hear this okay so we know that Bonaventure is in Jacksonville not Jacksonville Beach and we know that at the residence on Bonaventure that uh Miss uh Duran has
installed a dog run uh there for anytime uh that the dog is outside you're saying that the dog whenever the dog's outside the dog's on the dog run correct or on your leash correct oh okay so back to the city um I'd like
to hear what the recommendation is um uh please so the city's recommendation is still the same of declaring Dr seuss a dangerous dog this is based off of his behavior when not in control of Miss Doran
we do also think that if he does currently live in Jacksonville that's fantastic but we would like him not to return to the residence here in Jacksonville Beach not return to the residence here in Jacksonville Beach which he previously
lived at i uh thank you very much so I want you to know that I take these cases very seriously and I do think that Dr seuss is
dangerous under the definition of danger a dangerous dog in both um the um under the Florida statutes as well as under the uh Jacksonville Beach statute
um I think that um I think that the um photographs of the bite in my opinion that's a bite um I it has broken the skin from the photographs i'm not a doctor but it
looks to me like it's broken the skin i see a lot of red um and um uh I think that that is indication of uh the dog attacking a person and certainly being
willing to bite it's quite perhaps it's quite lucky that uh uh Miss Rodriguez had a jean jacket on and was able to turn as she testified
um I think that um the videos particularly the ones uh in January 16th March 13th and April 29th uh show uh not only that the dog's
not on the leash but also pretty aggressive behavior by a dog um that for all intents and purposes from what I could see from those videos unprovoked there there's nothing that
provoked that that behavior that I could see in the video um I recognize that you know there may be personalities involved but just looking at the bare evidence
the the the factual evidence if you will the objective evidence um it seems to me that that evidence shows that Dr seuss can be extremely
aggressive and uh uh again for for uh no apparent uh reason um uh the I think that
um it's going to be very important uh to you know um that the that Mr that you control your dog and the only way to do that is to have
him on a leash um you know if he one thing I'm going to say is that it's hard for me to believe that if he's so well behaved that you can't control him walking down some a stairwell
um when he's on the leash and you know that's that's hard for me to say both that he's so well behaved and yet you are afraid to hold on to him with a leash while you're walking down
the stairs that the two don't jive in from my perspective um I try to only look at uh be I want to say I do understand what
your dog means to you your your dog is not going to be taken away from you um but I I think that the behavior over the last you know year and a half has been
um has shown that um that Dr seuss can be uh extremely aggressive and um and that he has bitten
a person um he's attacked a person um and um again for no for no apparent reason so I am going to declare the dog
uh dangerous i'm going to rule that he cannot return to the residence in Jacksonville Beach i'm also going to rule that you um will have to report this dog to Jacksonville
uh as a dangerous dog and you will need to register Dr seuss as a dangerous dog in Jacksonville um I'm also going to rule that you should um you know I would prefer that your
residents have an enclosure um I think that you should consider um somehow having some kind of enclosure but if but I also understand that may not be possible at your current residence but um the restraint will be
necessary the restraint of the if you don't have the dog on the leash then you'll have to have the dog on the dog run um there are other um provisions that you'll be required to do under the
Jacksonville Beach Code um and um you'll have to um make sure that the dog has his vaccinations
um you'll have to um do some kind of uh chip or something for for Dr seuss um and um I think that what I'm going to do is
have you register in Jacksonville Beach i'll wave the $50 fee for that registration but then you will be required because the dog is living in Jacksonville you'll be required under my
order to register the dog in Jacksonville um and you know not that you have any intention of ever doing this but should you ever um should you ever sell or give
Dr s away you you're required to advise and notify the owner that he has been declared to be dangerous um I think that um I like I said I take these cases very
seriously um and I'm sorry that it's come to this but uh I I I honestly think that it's the best thing for you and for Dr seuss um to recognize
that that under the law and the provisions that we have in Jacksonville Beach and the state not just Jacksonville beaches but the state definition that he it
um should be classified as a dangerous dog and I think that the measures that you'll take to or be required to take um will be protective um not only for the public but quite frankly for him for Dr
seuss so um I don't have anything else at this point i'll drop I will um prepare an order it probably take about four or five business days um and u I will prepare the order and the and
provide it to the city and then the city will uh prepare it and provide it to you so I appreciate I want to say to everybody who came out today um to testify I appreciate it i
appreciate the effort that you've taken Miss Duran to be here and of course for uh everyone who took the time to come and testify um it indicates to me that
it's important to all of you and um it it allows me to um make a more fully informed decision so I appreciate that on everybody's part
i don't have anything else and and we're we're we're concluded thank you