Article: INSURANCE BLACKLIST HAS TEETH SOME FIRMS DENY POLICY IF HOME HAS CERTAIN DOG.(Business)(Statistical Data Included)

Byline: Marie Leech Staff Writer

From behind bars, Pebbles stares pitifully at workers and potential owners walking by. There's only one person she wants to see, but Walter Baires won't come.

He was forced to turn Pebbles in to the Pasadena Humane Society Tuesday after four years together because he was denied renter's insurance for owning a rottweiler.

``It was pretty hard giving her up. I was so nervous I couldn't even fill out the papers,'' he said. ``(Insurance companies) are only in it for the money; they want to protect themselves. But it's not fair for those of us who want a certain breed of dog.''

That issue seems to be a ...

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