Dog

lover Lynn Henning is giving up in her fight with

the Fayette County government over its limit on

the number of pets each local family can own.

"Due

to some health issues, I have chosen to comply

with the ordinance," Henning told The

Citizen this week, "but... if the time comes

when I am back to myself, I would like to address

this issue again," she added.

Henning,

owner of Covered in Bloom Inc., a wholesale plant

business on Malone Road in south Fayette, had

vowed to keep fighting after the Fayette County

Commission denied her request last June for an

exception to a county law that sets a three-pet

limit.

County

law allowed three pets per home unless the owner

gets a kennel license and meets all the zoning

and architectural requirements for a kennel.

Henning

asked commissioners for a personal exemption for

the ordinance, and also suggested a change in the

law allowing more pets and requiring a permit fee

for any over three.

"I'm

personally not willing to throw the ordinance out

the door," said commission Chairman Harold

Bost. "It is there to keep down

nuisances."

Henning

looked into legal challenges, she said, but

facing health problems, she is now looking for

homes for some of her pets, particularly a

4-year-old sable border collie.

Her

children are still trying to decide whether to

keep a Siberian husky or a great Dane, she added.

"My

children and I have been deeply impacted by this

situation," said Henning. "It is very

tough to have to ask a 5-year-old and an

8-year-old to make choices about which animals

they wish to keep."

Anyone

interested in adopting the pets can phone

770-719-8209.

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