“It certainly looks like a situation where we want to get that dog out of the city,” Kutzke said.

The matter came to the Legislative and Regulatory Committee Nov. 5, when the animal’s owner, Stephanie Bushor, exercised her right to appeal the police department’s designation of the dog as vicious.

The panel hears the appeal and makes a decision, but the Common Council has the final say.

Bushor told committee members she wanted Layla, whom she described as a pit bull, declared neither dangerous nor vicious. She said the dog is a “therapy animal” for a child, and that the Sept. 25 incident, in which Layla bit an adult, was out of character for Layla because the dog was pregnant.

Bushor said Thursday she had not been able to attend the Nov. 20 meeting and had not been told of the Common Council’s decision.

“I intend to take it to the Supreme Court and find them unconstitutional and corrupt,” she said.

In investigating the case, Police Officer Cameron Coronado told the committee that officers had uncovered an April report indicating that Layla had bitten another person – Bushor.

Bushor said the report is inaccurate, and Layla was not the dog that bit her in April.