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Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante's new administration isn't wasting any time moving ahead with its election promise to repeal the city's controversial ban on pit bull-type dogs.

City councillor Craig Sauve says there are plans to consult with scientists, veterinarians, the SPCA and dog owners about a new bylaw.

"It's something that we're going to do immediately," he stressed in an interview Tuesday.

Jessica Moore, 26, moved to the suburbs with her two pit bull-type dogs in July because of a bylaw passed in 2016 by then-mayor Denis Coderre forbidding citizens from owning such canines.

"Once the pit bull ban came into effect, it started getting costly as well as stressful," she said in an interview.

"It all started in December when we had to start paying $150 for each dog and (also) muzzling, and all the extra fees and everything."

The additional costs included $50 to get each dog microchipped and $75 for a personal background check.

"I had to go the police to get fingerprinted and that made me feel like a criminal," she added.

Sauve says Coderre's bylaw was shown again and again to be based on bad science.

"We found that breed-specific legislation — anti-pit-bull legislation — was just unscientific," he said in an interview.

"Instead of banning one particular breed of dogs, we are going to focus on how dogs are brought up," he said.

"We going to look at dog owners and whether they have been educated about their dogs and whether they've been getting any training."