I am trying to help, and I appreciate that there are people who have many dogs and take wonderful care of them all. I am concerned because I know how vindictive neighbours can be if they feel their rights are being violated. It is her neighbour that concerns me, because no one can know how far they are willing to go, and I'd hate for her to have a neighbour that would take this as far as possible and cause her dogs to be taken from her home and placed in new homes without her input.
I'm hesistent to wade any further into this, but I have to say that ignorance of the law is not a defence. And in this particular case, the poster knows she is breaking the law. Even if she didn't know, her neighbour certainly might, as you pointed out!
Also, something that I didn't mention in my previous post - if she has more than the legal number of dogs in her home, it is unlikely they are all licenced. That in itself is a violation of the law, and will give her neighbours even more 'ammunition' against her!
The bottom line is that I want all dogs to live in good homes. I don't want this lady, who sounds like she loves her dogs and cares for them, to lose her dogs to strange homes because she is breaking the law. I would prefer to see them go to homes she is familiar with where she can visit them regularly rather than having them seized and be adopted by strangers, even if these strangers might provide excellent homes for them, too. |