Originally Posted by Yorkiedaze (Post 2462941)

PLEASE, you guys, if anyone comes to your door saying they are animal control, take their name, excuse yourself for a minute, shut and lock the door and call the office to see if they sent this person to your house. Of course that is with anyone. If they ever want to look inside your house for any reason, just say no, unless they have a warrent. Please don't let strangers in your house.
If you don't have a county license for each dog they can fine you so much per year that you have had the dog/s.

Originally Posted by SweetViolet (Post 2461672)

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!)