The Fayette Citizen-News Page
Wednesday, August 11, 1999
Dog lover gives up fight with county

By DAVE HAMRICK
Staff Writer

Dog lover Lynn Henning is giving up in her fight with the Fayette County government over its limit on the number of pets each local family can own.

“Due to some health issues, I have chosen to comply with the ordinance,” Henning told The Citizen this week, “but... if the time comes when I am back to myself, I would like to address this issue again,” she added.

Henning, owner of Covered in Bloom Inc., a wholesale plant business on Malone Road in south Fayette, had vowed to keep fighting after the Fayette County Commission denied her request last June for an exception to a county law that sets a three-pet limit.

County law allowed three pets per home unless the owner gets a kennel license and meets all the zoning and architectural requirements for a kennel.

Henning asked commissioners for a personal exemption for the ordinance, and also suggested a change in the law allowing more pets and requiring a permit fee for any over three.

“I'm personally not willing to throw the ordinance out the door,” said commission Chairman Harold Bost. “It is there to keep down nuisances.”

Henning looked into legal challenges, she said, but facing health problems, she is now looking for homes for some of her pets, particularly a 4-year-old sable border collie.

Her children are still trying to decide whether to keep a Siberian husky or a great Dane, she added.

“My children and I have been deeply impacted by this situation,” said Henning. “It is very tough to have to ask a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old to make choices about which animals they wish to keep.”

Anyone interested in adopting the pets can phone 770-719-8209.


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