If you're a dog owner in Montreal, and your dog bites, or tries to bite someone, your dog will be evaluated by a behavior expert — at your expense.
And if you don't pay the $465 for that evaluation, the dog will be put down.
The city quietly implemented the new regulation last August. It officially kicked in on Jan. 1.
In the past, only dogs that caused injury to someone needed to be evaluated. Now, a dog can be seized and sent for a behavioral evaluation if someone complains that the animal tried to attack or bite them.
Incidentally, paying the $465 isn't a guarantee the dog will be spared euthanasia at the end of the process — the animal could still be found too dangerous to be allowed to live, and would then have to be put down within 48 hours of the evaluation.