I do understand where you are coming from and that you are trying to help, so please don't think I was attacking you or what you said.
The end of my post more or less turned into a rant about the laws and the fact that they aren't well known rather than what you said and I hope you don't take any offense to it.
I do know that not knowing the law doesn't make it right, but I am willing to go to court and fight for what I believe my rights to be if it happens to become an issue with any of my neighbors. I have seen court cases won of this nature.
I think that there should be pardons for certain cases, where the law was not known if there are no valid reasons for complaint. Say my neighbor was to complain that my dogs barked or something to that effect -- I just wonder how they would be able to prove that, as I know that it is not true.
It just seems that some people that are unhappy and mean will take advantage of the fact that there is a law, just to be jerks and not because there is a real reason to do it.
See, here I go again not even replying to what you said... just off in my own world. It just gets me so heated up!
So please, again I do respect what you said and think you said it tastefully.. I guess it is just hurtful sometimes to see something in print so near and dear to you
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Originally Posted by daniellealberta  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. |