Jen Maxwell Miller affectionately refers to her 11-year-old pit bull as a “pibble.”
“We joke and say she thinks we’re calling her a ‘people.’ She thinks she’s human,” Maxwell says.
To Maxwell, her husband and her two stepdaughters, ages 12 and 16, Stella the “pibble” might as well be human. Their other two dogs, Boomer, a 13-year-old husky-lab mix, and Booger, a 5-year-old boxer-pit bull mix, might as well be, too.
“My dogs are family,” Maxwell says. “Wherever I go, they’re coming with me.”
But what happens when ordinances regulating or banning certain dog breeds limit the homes, neighborhoods or even cities in which one can live – which was recently the case for Maxwell?