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orinskye · 02-15-2006, 05:20 PM

I know im not onlin that much anymore, but maybe you guys can help me... or at least listen to my rant.
My fiance told me an interesting story a couple days ago about a couple of dogs that tried to attack toby when he took toby out to potty. These dogs were on leashes, BUT they were large dogs so they were so strong that the lady could hardly hold them. Well, i take toby out this morning and low and behold guess what?! this same woman is out with her dogs. So these dogs start barking and growling aggressively (the fur on their backs stood on end, which means they meant buissness) and they totally sounded like they were going to rip toby to peices!... and they were pulling and yanking on teh leashes so hard that this woman almost lost her grip several times. I went to the apartment manager (shes really nice...) and i talked to her about it and she said they are aware that the woman has no control and that she cant give me any more information on what they are doing about it because it involves the womans personal information. So they are aware and they are going to do something, but i dont know what. So in the meantime i asked her if i should call animal control, she slipped me the womans apartment number (on the down low... she wasnt even supposed to do THAT) so i call animal control and i finally get to talk to a real person. Well guess what!!! THEY CAN NOT DO A DAMN THING UNTIL THAT WOMANS DOGS ATTACK A PERSON OR MY DOG. I expressed my frustration about the situation and i amost started to cry just from sheer frustration at being barred. I feel like i have NO RIGHTS. So i said (to this poor woman on the phone) "so what you are telling me is that those dogs have to kill my dog or bite me before you do your jobs?!!!" <-- i did feel bad after the fact, but cmon.... seriously
Okay, so they have "nuisance laws" that have penalties if a dog barks to much, but if a dog is openly AGGRESSIVE they can not do a damn thing. And their whole reasoning was that it was "my word against hers", exscuse me? Animal control should get their butts out here and i will give them a demonstration of how aggressive these dogs are, just take them out of the house for two seconds and walk them to the grass where another dog might be and they go NUTS.
Also, as these animals were walking away: this guy was coming out of his garage and the dogs went off on him too, so it is not just animals it is also people!

I just talked to the apartment manager and she was going to go the same rout i was, but animal control told her the same thing!

Socal? do you have any suggestions?

02-15-2006, 05:20 PM	#1
orinskye YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: California Posts: 2,990	Aggressive Dogs!!!! I know im not onlin that much anymore, but maybe you guys can help me... or at least listen to my rant. My fiance told me an interesting story a couple days ago about a couple of dogs that tried to attack toby when he took toby out to potty. These dogs were on leashes, BUT they were large dogs so they were so strong that the lady could hardly hold them. Well, i take toby out this morning and low and behold guess what?! this same woman is out with her dogs. So these dogs start barking and growling aggressively (the fur on their backs stood on end, which means they meant buissness) and they totally sounded like they were going to rip toby to peices!... and they were pulling and yanking on teh leashes so hard that this woman almost lost her grip several times. I went to the apartment manager (shes really nice...) and i talked to her about it and she said they are aware that the woman has no control and that she cant give me any more information on what they are doing about it because it involves the womans personal information. So they are aware and they are going to do something, but i dont know what. So in the meantime i asked her if i should call animal control, she slipped me the womans apartment number (on the down low... she wasnt even supposed to do THAT) so i call animal control and i finally get to talk to a real person. Well guess what!!! THEY CAN NOT DO A DAMN THING UNTIL THAT WOMANS DOGS ATTACK A PERSON OR MY DOG. I expressed my frustration about the situation and i amost started to cry just from sheer frustration at being barred. I feel like i have NO RIGHTS. So i said (to this poor woman on the phone) "so what you are telling me is that those dogs have to kill my dog or bite me before you do your jobs?!!!" <-- i did feel bad after the fact, but cmon.... seriously Okay, so they have "nuisance laws" that have penalties if a dog barks to much, but if a dog is openly AGGRESSIVE they can not do a damn thing. And their whole reasoning was that it was "my word against hers", exscuse me? Animal control should get their butts out here and i will give them a demonstration of how aggressive these dogs are, just take them out of the house for two seconds and walk them to the grass where another dog might be and they go NUTS. Also, as these animals were walking away: this guy was coming out of his garage and the dogs went off on him too, so it is not just animals it is also people! I just talked to the apartment manager and she was going to go the same rout i was, but animal control told her the same thing! Socal? do you have any suggestions?