PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. — Caitrin Conroy of the Pet Unity Project says 13-year-old PopTart has been part of her family since 2017. Her little brother, Doug, joined the family three years later.

However, when Conroy and her husband moved to Prince George’s County in 2020, she said they were given an impossible choice.

“We were told that we weren’t allowed to live here,” she recalled. “We had to choose between our house, that we had put the down payment on and was gone, or our dog, who was determined to look like a pit bull.”

Although a DNA test allowed PopTart to legally stay in the County with her dogs, Conroy said the experience was terrifying.

“It felt like you ate a bag of rocks, and your chest got heavy,” she said.

Now, new legislation may soften Prince George’s stance on pit

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