04-07-2020 Special City Council Meeting Minutes (2)

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Special City Council Minutes Apri17, 2020 Page 6 of 8 --� ------------------------------ associated with it. She said her daughter loses her mind but her son on the other hand seems to have somehow adapted to it. She said after the incident, he had all of his sutures and his face all swollen and people would look at him. He was like I don't want anybody to look at me, so she says here is a five-year-old who doesn't want people to look at him. She said they took off the bandages off the following day and her son looked in the mirror and said he didn't like what he saw anymore. Mrs. Randuenz said it is clearly her point of view the dog is dangerous. She said when people ask what kind of dog it was and she says Lab and everyone is so surprised it was a Lab. She said any animal can act like this and just because it is a Lab doesn't mean it's going to be a nice, friendly family dog. She said the dog is insane and that it showed no aggression during the day but all of a sudden her five year old kid just gets attacked in the face. Mrs. Randuenz stated that Mr. Rose and Mrs. Bjornaraa-Rose live in Mound on the lake. She stated from her experience being there that multiple children run through the yard day after day to go from neighborhood house to neighborhood house. She said this is a high risk to leave this dog without a fence or some kind of containment. She stated that she feels so emotional about it and she is trying to contain herself because her son has healed mentally somewhat, but physically he'll never be the same. She said every time he smiles for a picture they are going to know it and see it. She said it is not something that can just go away and a dog being allowed to survive this is not right. She said it's kind of like a bad person attacking somebody for no reason and not even going to jail or having any repercussion for the actions they made, it's � disgusting and it makes her sick and so sad. She stated that she has nightmares and her son comes into her bed a couple of times a week saying he has nightmares. She stated that they are all trying to talk about this and cope with it but at the end of the day it's disturbing. Mrs. Randuenz stated that her children will never interact with other dogs unless mom a�d dad say it is okay but it's just so sad because he's five and he's going to have them for the rest of his life. She stated that he will not have his sweet little soft baby face on the right side anymore that he now has a giant L. She said this never should have happened and being told that the dog was going to be taken care of but now here they are arguing that iYs not a dangerous dog is absolutely asinine to her. Council Member Akerson asked if the boy is scared of dogs now. Mrs. Randuenz stated that no, he is not. She stated that they have finro dogs themselves, a Golden Retriever and a Basset Hound but he really hasn't even wanted to interact their our dogs much. She said he used to always love on their dogs. Council Member Pederson stated that they have heard testimony but he is not quite sure what the question is from Mr. Rose. Chief Klang said he was confused on that also. He asked Mr. Rose to clarify what he is asking the Council for. Mr. Rose stated that the whole process is confusing to some degree and he recapped what had happened again and stated that procedurally he is not comfortable with the fact that they were going from potentially dangerous dog to weighing the option of labeling Jax a dangerous dog. ,"�