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Next time I see one of those dogs in my property, there will be Winchester round nose pellet embedded in their ass.
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Expecting either the Humane society or the police to help with problem dogs is an exercise in futility.
I'm sure the police will be only too happy to help with the inappropriate discharge of firearms; perhaps the humane society can add some cruelty charges.
Seems to be a recurring theme: the (taxpayer-funded) authorities won't help you with your problems, but if you take matters into your own hands, they will suddenly have plenty of resources to punish you for doing so.
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authorities won't help you with your problems, but if you take matters into your own hands, they will suddenly have plenty of resources to punish you
Or to put it another way, if a dog attacks people, the authorities believe the dog. If people defend themselves, authorities still believe the dog.
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If the human society is under contract with the county To handle animal control issues.. perhaps it needs to be brought to attention of the press that they are getting paid to do nothing.
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Sigh........ I know all about these issues. Most dog owners (the bad ones) know that the cops can't do anything, or won't do anything. Especially, if you got a barking dog. Cops come and drive by, yeah they may talk to the homeowner but don't expect much else to happen. No tickets... No nothing even if you got multiple people calling on your street.
Just be happy that you don't live any closer to these type of people. It's always the bad apples that spoil it for the bunch it seems. I just try to ignore it now as much as possible, and I know mace is not permitted but I carry a can of bear spray. Screw the laws, I'm not gonna get bit by some loose dog on my walks.
So how did I ship bear spray to Hawaii? Easy, buy it off amazon, to a friend on the mainland, then the friend forwards the package to Hawaii.
Good Luck!
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I have been told by police officers that if you have a dog issue that won't go away, just keep calling 911 for loose dog or hazardous dog and disturbing the peace which is what the dog owner is doing by letting their pet roam the streets.
He specifically said to ignore the dispatcher if they try to pawn me off on the humane society (or whatever passes for it out here in 3rd world land), and to just repeat it's an emergency, dog on the loose!
They cannot ignore an emergency call and if they have to come out enough times, they will begin to cite the owner.
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I am unfamiliar with the laws concerning dogs here. Is rabies a non issue? Elsewhere, if a loose dog bites somebody, Animal Control "arrests" the dog and it's 7 days lockdown to see if it displays signs of rabies if no record of the rabies vaccine is shown. After 7 days, the owner has to have the dog inoculated for rabies with the vaccine, and if owner unable, it's bye bye for the dog, as well as bye bye if rabies is evident during the quarantine period.
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quote:
Originally posted by Tink
I am unfamiliar with the laws concerning dogs here. Is rabies a non issue? Elsewhere, if a loose dog bites somebody, Animal Control "arrests" the dog and it's 7 days lockdown to see if it displays signs of rabies if no record of the rabies vaccine is shown. After 7 days, the owner has to have the dog inoculated for rabies with the vaccine, and if owner unable, it's bye bye for the dog, as well as bye bye if rabies is evident during the quarantine period.
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Hawaii has no rabies, that is why there is quarantine when people move their pets here from the mainland, to keep Hawaii rabies free.
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Thanks. That thought came to mind, but then I thought about rats immigrating in on ships and started to wonder.
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An air gun is considered an air gun and not a firearm. An air gun shoots pellets or bb's, not bullets driven by smokeless powder. You can't carry an air gun off your property unless it's stored in a case. You can't shoot an air gun on a street or road period. An air gun can't be shot in a manner that could injure a person or property. So, like with a "real" firearm, be darn sure of your backstop.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/30264...ellet-guns
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Hawaii has dodged the rabies bullet a few times. It seems crazy to me they don't require pets to get rabies vaccines when rabies has been diagnosed within the state:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1517074
Rabid bat diagnosed in Hawaii.
Sasaki DM1, Middleton CR, Sawa TR, Christensen CC, Kobayashi GY.
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Abstract
Since 1966, the Hawaii State Government has been conducting Fluorescent Rabies Antibody (FRA) testing on animal brains as part of a statewide rabies-surveillance program. On April 3, 1991, the Department of Health (DoH) laboratory diagnosed the first case of rabies detected in the State. A large brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus fuscus, captured in a transport container that had just been off-loaded from a ship at Honolulu harbor, was caught. It's brain was examined and showed typical fluorescent staining patterns for rabies virus. The USPHS Centers For Disease Control (CDC) rabies laboratory confirmed the diagnosis 2 days later. The successful interception of this rabid animal was the result of close cooperation between the private sector (Sea Land Service, Hawaiian Stevedores) and the Hawaii State Government Departments of Health and of Agriculture.
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