The move comes after a resident there was mauled by her pet pit bulls.
"I say I never want another pit bull ... because of what happened here," says Clarence Allen, the husband of Linda Henry, who will forever bear the scars of a mauling back in March by three of the family's four pit bulls.
"They just grabbed me. One grabbed this arm and the other grabbed the other arm, and they just pulled me down," Linda Henry recounts.
The dog bites were so deep that they exposed the bones of her arms, legs, and even her skull.
"In the hospital, they had to take skin off my leg to put on my head," she says.
Henry also lost an eye and an ear, and both of her arms had to be amputated.
"I never thought that would happen with those dogs because they were like kids in the house."
A Westwego City Councilman is now proposing a pit bull ordinance that would place stiffer restrictions on pet owners. The move has been met with widespread opposition.
"Some people have called for it; some people have called and written against it," Councilman Glen Green says.
There is even an online petition to block the legislation. But Green says his proposed ordinance is not anti-pit bull, but an attempt to make pet owners more responsible.
"All of these people submitting petitions did not get to see Linda Henry after that dog attack. Had they seen this lady or went to visit her in the hospital like I did, I probably wouldn't be getting very many petitions."
Both Henry and Allen support the proposed pit bull legislation. Consideration of the ordinance, which is still being drafted, has been deferred until July to allow new council members to weigh in.
(KSLA-TV - May 31, 2013)
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