If you have a dog

[TomK]

Canuck - whilst I completely agree with you about not poisoning or harming the animal, after all, that would be illegal unless the harm is done in immediate self-defense - I do take exception to your use of the word "gripe", and if you had read my posts you will see that the neighbours and I have been doing a lot more than just griping here. I'm sorry to read that you have had several encounters with vicious dogs, but in the several years I have lived here that has not been my own experience and this is the first time I have had to deal with a situation like this. I did not know the laws pertaining to the control of dangerous animals, not much about tenant-landlord laws or the difficulty in getting anything done about the problem via the humane society or police. I am sure there are several people here who are also in that same position or will be in the future and I hoped my neighbourhood's experience with the dangerous dog and its owner would be useful information for them and I might also receive some useful advice (which I have).

If no one is going to "gripe" about this then those who haven't experienced such a situation aren't going to learn what goes on in situations like this and those people won't be interested in getting the laws changed at all, will they?

Tom
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