If you have a dog

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From Tom's ongoing description of the attacks it sounds like there was a whole series of close calls spanning months and involving many different people and pets in the neighborhood. People shouldn't have to arm themselves with pepper spray, air horns and bats just to go out in their own yard, or walk in their neighborhood, and no one is going to go to those lengths unless they feel it is truly needed. Attacks that can be quite traumatic don't always result in injuries, but are indications that it is only a matter of time until someone's luck runs out and they get mauled. It seems like Mark doesn't think anything short of ripped flesh counts. I am not sure why it is supposed to be Tom's responsibility to "document" injuries, that would be the job of our tax payer funded law enforcement.

Allowing dogs to run loose is illegal, continuing to let your dogs run loose after your neighbors have let you know it is a problem is rude, and letting the dogs run loose after neighbors have reported that your dogs are behaving aggressively towards people and pets shows a complete lack of concern for others that borders on pathological. The dogs' owners are the ones at fault here, not Tom and his neighbors who cannot even go out in their own yards or walk the roads they pay for in safety.


Carol