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They are/were friendly with the owners of the big dog. The woman said her boyfriend (who was with the dog during the incident) isn't that good at controlling the
dog and that they are "rehabilitating" the dog (in a condo development??). When Animal Control showed up, she started changing her tune. Said it was all the fault of the little dog. Now the condo owner wants to change the rules about pet ownership.
Fiance's dog is actually at fault, because she dropped the leash, meaning her dog was not under her control. HER dog was the one that instigated things.
Fiance's dog is actually at fault, because she dropped the leash, meaning her dog was not under her control. HER dog was the one that instigated things.
Yes that is what I'm thinking too.
I would like to know how much bigger is the bigger dog who did the biting? Are there any rules that pets must not exceed a certain weight? I think it's possible the reason people can now have large dogs in community owned condo homes is because they claim the dog is an emotional support dog. If this dog is registered as an emotional support dog then it should not have bitten the little dog even if the little dog was out of the owners control.
I would like to know how much bigger is the bigger dog who did the biting? Are there any rules that pets must not exceed a certain weight? I think it's possible the reason people can now have large dogs in community owned condo homes is because they claim the dog is an emotional support dog. If this dog is registered as an emotional support dog then it should not have bitten the little dog even if the little dog was out of the owners control.
Thing about ESA is that there are no behavioral standards for them like there are for task-trained service dogs. Service dogs are expected to focus only on the person they are assisting, to the point of ignoring every single other dog in the vicinity, and cannot fight back even if a dog gets in their face or bites them. That is why they have legal rights that non-service dogs, even ESA, do not have.
Good to see a serious charge levied against the negligent party. Dog ownership in this country seems to have gone nuts in the last few years. Not surprisingly there are many irresponsible owners out there,with this one possibly the worst offender.
When I was on the farm we had a nutcase neighbor. He neglected his dogs and some of them were half coyote. They would attack in a pack even while I was going over ground on the tractor. I started carrying a rifle after that. They looked starved and would come down and kill our pigs and chickens but we couldn't catch them in the act. One day 4 of them tried to attack our dog in the yard and I killed two of them. Our farms were a mile apart and this pack would run the local canyons looking for food. Driving by his place on the 3 wheeler was terrifying.
We would go up and talk to him and he could care less. At one point he had 32 of them. After we saw him drive into town one day we gathered up other neighbors and we cut as many down as we could. I doubt he even noticed and the dead dogs were eaten by dogs we didn't kill.
Sheriff didn't do a thing after repeated calls. They would call him and he'd be like, "Oh, that's too bad".
The area I grew up in is a rural area. Drug dealers lived right around the corner from me. Sold heroin, cocaine, and cut hair out of the same house. If you drive by that neighborhood, you would have no idea that anything like that would happen there.
I'm not here to protect the dog's owner, he should be eligible for the maximum penalty, the same way as any killer using a firearm or a machete.
The part I don't understand why would an experienced officer enter into this situation without wearing body armor like all men do in Schutzhund training, and a loaded shotgun or an AR 15.
Maybe the officer did not know how bad the situation was.
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