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Originally Posted by SweetViolet  I used to live in Silicon Valley. The city I lived in had a two dog limit, and I had three dogs (the third I had rescued). I came home from work one day and found the padlock to the gate to my back yard had been cut and my dogs missing.
Random visit from animal control.
I had to pay a fine and sell one of my dogs (all AKC Collies).
I think this is fundamentally wrong. That Animal Control officer had to walk up a long driveway, through my carport, and look over a 6 foot redwood fence. Then he had to use bolt-cutters to break my padlock. I consider that trespass and breaking and entering. Then he, essentially, stole my dogs and his employer held them for ransom, threatening to kill them.
What pissed me off the most is that my backyard neighbour had a pit bull that kept digging under the fence and getting into my yard and menacing my dogs and Animal Control wouldn't do anything about it because the pit bull wasn't digging out and going into the public streets.
My best advice is to keep the dogs inside the house and don't let more than two or three outside at a time. Those nosy SOBs need a search warrant to go into your house! (Although why they didn't need one to go into my back yard is beyond me!) |
I am so sorry this happened to you. In my opinion, I don't think animal control is willing to do random checks. They would either have to have more staff to be able to do random checks and all other things animal control has on its plate, or pay it's employees extra money. Either way, that's more money for it's budget. That would mean raising taxes and nobody will be happy. Every instance that I've heard of animal control going into someone's home is because of a complaint. They don't have to disclose who complains to prevent a person from retaliating.
I think someone was upset with you in some way, and I doubt that it was with the way you treated your pups. At least I know this is true for Los Angeles, they don't have money to enforce the spay/neuter law, why would they do random checks for licensing?????