Kenmare, N.D. (AP) Kenmare's mayor says he expects opposition at the next City Council meeting to a new ordinance that bans some dog breeds.

The Kenmare City Council voted April 14th to ban American Staffordshire terriers, Rottweilers and Doberman pinschers in the town of about 1,000. People who have those breeds have 10 days to remove them.

Mayor Roger Ness says the ordinance affects only a few dogs in Kenmare, but opponents have been vocal and he expects them to be at the next council meeting in May.

Ness says no one has been bitten by a vicious dog, but he wants to make sure that does not change. He says residents feel threatened by dogs that have come into the city in the last couple of months.

Kenmare had banned pit bulls earlier. Ness said people were licensing dogs under other breed names the city felt were very similar to pit bulls.

The new ordinance adds American Staffordshire terriers, Rottweilers, Doberman pinschers and any mixture of those breeds.

Violators could be fined at least $100.

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