{
 "answer": "Mendon, Vermont has no dogs & animal control ordinance on record as of 2026-09-22.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-028586",
 "municipality": "Mendon",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Vermont",
 "country": "US",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "uncertain",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-22",
 "official_website": "https://mendonvt.gov",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": false,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Town of Mendon Ordinance Regulating Dogs and Wolf-Hybrids (updated)",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2025-12-08",
   "document_url": "https://www.mendonvt.gov/DocumentCenter/View/467/Mendon-Dogs-and-Wolf-Hybrids-Updated-Ordinance-12825-PDF",
   "summary": "Regulates dogs and wolf-hybrids: running at large, disturbances/nuisances, impoundment, and release from impoundment. Cover page confirmed via site search index: 'As Passed December 8, 2025'. PDF itself Cloudflare-walled.",
   "link_dead": false
  },
  {
   "primary": false,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Town of Mendon animal control ordinance (prior filename)",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "unknown",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.mendonvt.gov/DocumentCenter/View/468/animal-control-ordinance-PDF",
   "summary": "An earlier-filed animal control ordinance PDF distinct from the Dec-2025 'Dogs and Wolf-Hybrids' update above; likely a prior version, possibly superseded. Could not open to confirm relationship.",
   "link_dead": false
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/us/vt/mendon/animal-control/"
}