Cobb dog tethering vote postponed
Dogs may receive some - or maybe total - relief from tethering in Cobb County.
A third public hearing and final vote are expected at 7 p.m. April 25 by the Cobb County Board of Commissioners on whether to change the county code for dog tethering.
The meeting will be in the BOC Board Room, second floor, 100 Cherokee St., Marietta.
Tether means “any chain, rope, leash, tie out or wire designed to restrain an animal which is attached to an animal’s collar or halter and is also attached to a stationary object,” according to Section 10-1 of the county code.
After calls from the community to abandon all forms of tethering, Community Development Agency Director Dana Johnson told the commissioners Tuesday they will be presented with a different draft code for dog restraint.
During Tuesday’s second public hearing as they did during the first hearing, all of the speakers spoke against unsupervised tethering and called for county officials to model their code after ones from Douglas or Gwinnett counties.
