SPRINGFIELD, Mo.–Certain Springfield City Council members are facing backlash after Monday’s five to four vote to ban new pit bulls from living in the city by next January.

Some animal lovers are taking their anger to social media.

They’re promoting boycotting the businesses of council members who voted in favor of the ban.

City manager Greg Burris says the response to the decision is inappropriate.

A limousine company and eye care clinic are just some of the businesses in Springfield that are being targeted by the boycott posts on Facebook.

The reason being, these business owners voted on Monday in favor of the ban.

Now, people against it are encouraging others on Facebook to spend their money elsewhere.

Some of the posts are even vulgar in nature.

City manager Greg Burris says he is shocked by the aftermath of the vote.

“In my nine years of being city manager, I’ve never seen anything like this where citizens are going after council members in a way that I think is unfair. They’re actually doing personal attacks on them, there’s a lot of cursing toward them, they’re even promoting the boycotts of their businesses and in some cases, the council members don’t even own those businesses,” says Burris.

Citizens Against Breed Specific Legislation have started a referendum petition to try and repeal the ordinance passed by Springfield City Council.