{"id":350946,"date":"2010-02-22T14:21:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f2b2378970c"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:21:07","slug":"pit-bull-attack-has-echo-park-dog-owners-taking-up-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/350946","title":{"rendered":"Pit bull attack has Echo Park dog owners taking up arms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Linkingla\"<\/img><\/a> A vicious dog attack in Echo Park is prompting some dog owners to arm themselves.<\/p>\n

Jenny Burman, who watches Echo Park on the Chicken Corner blog<\/a>, reports that a small dog was recently attacked by a pit bull in the neighborhood. The attack highlights growing concerns by some about dangerous pit bulls in\u00a0Echo Park, she said, and it’s caused an extreme response on the Web.<\/p>\n

"The attack quickly led to an extended song of fear on the list serv: Dog owners who fear for their safety and the safety of their dogs. One woman says she has a .22 and is considering bringing it with her to the park so that she can shoot a dangerous dog if it tries to attack one of her four dogs," Burman wrote. "Another woman says she already carries a stun wand. Someone asked where to get one. At least two maybe three say they pack pepper spray, but one person says it’s hard to use."<\/p>\n

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Here are some other interesting L.A. reads on the Web today:\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

SANTA MONICA GROWTH WARS:<\/strong> There’s another push in Santa Monica to reduce development, at least temporarily. From the Argonaut: <\/a>"Due to the impending review of the environmental impact report on Santa Monica\u2019s future land use guidelines, City Councilman Kevin McKeown will be asking his council colleagues to place a \u201ctemporary hold\u201d on all development agreements, including the massive mixed-use complex planned near Bergamot Station."<\/p>\n

DENNY’S COMES TO EAST L.A.: <\/strong>There’s a lot of excitement as the Eastside nabs a sit-down chain eatery, according to Eastside L.A.<\/a>: "It is one of the few sit-down, chain restaurants to operate in unincorporated East Los Angeles, which is still dominated by mom-and pop taquerias and independent restaurants. The last real estate boom saw the arrival of other major restaurant and coffee house chains that have brought a suburban flavor to parts of East Los Angeles, including a Starbucks on Third Street and a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Mednik."<\/p>\n

Have some news for Linking L.A.? Contact Times reporter Anthony Pesce at newstips@latimes.com.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A vicious dog attack in Echo Park is prompting some dog owners to arm themselves. Jenny Burman, who watches Echo Park on the Chicken Corner blog, reports that a small dog was recently attacked by a pit bull in the neighborhood. The attack highlights growing concerns by some about dangerous pit bulls in\u00a0Echo Park, she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}