does animal control come knocking?
 

:eek: My daughter just moved back home with her 3 yorkies. I already have 3 of my own and 1 chihuahua.
Someone told me that Animal Control makes random visits usually when we're at work. They check to make sure you only have dogs that are registered. Does anyone know if this is true?
My chihuahua and 1 of my yorkies are only ones registered.
We are only allowed 3 here in West Covina Ca

Any info appreciated - or maybe you can make me feel better by telling me you live around my area and also have many yorkies:D

man, they must have no life!!!!

and what to you mean registered? registered by akc or ckc or registered within your city?

i guess this is so that you aren't running like unregistered breeding or puppy mills or something...

if your puppies are chipped i believer thats same as being registered in your city. thats how it is in canada. you chip the dog, it's registered in ontario for life. if you don't chip you pay $30 or something/yr to be registered

I doubt they would come knocking on your door unless someone reports you. Truthfully, they have more important things to do than going door to door to see if you have registered dogs.

A member on another forum who lives in Orange County, California had a random visit from Animal Control. She was way over the limit. She only had three licensed, but she didn't have a problem. She said all the officer wanted to see was proof that all the dogs were up to date on their rabies vaccines and the condition of her home to make sure it wasn't filthy and the dogs were well cared for.

Living in CA and knowing in Sac county the dog needs to be licensed, I'm assuming that's what you also mean by registered. I do know you are supposed to be but I highly doubt more than 50% of people obey that law. I've also never heard of animal control searching like that but if I were you, I would still check. Maybe west covina animal control is different. I sure think that's nonsense n you should be okay cuz if not, I have about 20 addresses to send to animal control to shut down BYB's! Good luck to you.

No Way!!! Really wow I've never heard that - usually they will make you rehome the ones that aren't licensed at least that's what happened to a co-worker of mine. Someone reported her because she had way over the city's limit.

Well all of mine are current on vaccines and so our my daughters. They even have a whole corner of our house where they have taken over it's totally Yorkie town :p

If they do happen to stop in, tell them your daughter is visiting with her dogs. They don't need to know!

OOPS Sorry yeah meant licensed

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!)

That's just wrong:( Yeah it makes me very upset because we shouldn't have to worry about animal control when we care and love our furbabies the way we do:(

I know they have a job to do but go get the people who are abusing and hoarding these poor babies and leave us alone:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Wow! I guess the lady on the other forum was lucky. She said the officer was "cool" and didn't give her any trouble. She lives in a condo so her dogs aren't out in a yard, though. She also works from home so she was there when Animal Control came.

Yeah she was. From what I heard they're usually jerks and they don't care if your crying your eyes out they will still make you rehome the ones over the limit:(

Mine are also always indoors - they get to go outside and play in backyard for awhile but only when I'm home.

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I agree! There are so many other people out there that don't care for their dogs at all and they come after the ones that have more dogs than the city allows even though they'll well taken care of. :mad:

I know I wish there was a way to change this. It's just not fair:(

I think these kinds of limits are just wrong. There are people with just one animal who don't take care of it properly...and I have had as many as 16 dogs (3 adults and a litter of 13 puppies) at a time and everything was fine.

Also, I think the size of the property should be taken into consideration. My present home city was proposing a limit of 4 dogs and the citizens made such an uproar that the whole concept was dropped. Why should I, who has 1/3 of an acre (surrounded by masonry walls), have the same limit as someone who lives in a one-bedroom condo, assuming we both take equally good care of our pets?

I think Animal Control should mind their own business...that business being picking up strays and responding to complaints from citizens, not snooping on private property, breaking and entering, and stealing people's pets and holding them for ransom!

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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?????

They do random checks here. I've even heard some of my neighbors say that they cruise the dog park and will randomly approach people to check the status of the dog's tags.

I find it kind of disgusting, especially since the animal control here had complaints leveled against them for not taking care of the animals that they had impounded. They have time to harass owners, but not enough time to clean their kennels and keep the animals fed and watered, apparently.

In some areas, yes, they do go door to door and check.
They don't here as far as I know.

Animal control cant come into your home unless they are accompanied by police with a search warrant. Do not open the door and let them see inside your home or give them any information about you, your children or your dogs. Have a pen and paper ready, grab it and walk out-side and lock your door behind you. Write down their names, badge #, who they work for and the license plate #. After they are off of your property, tell them that they are not allowed on your property and you will call the police if they come back as they are trespassing. Remember DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY INFO!!

In most areas, Animal Control have full police powers.

I live in upstate NY and yes animal control comes around every 2 years making sure that every dog in the household has been vaxed for rabies and has a license. If the animals arent then they will give you time to take care of it or you get a nasty fine. I dont think that we have a animal limit here..

Please correct me if I am wrong. They still need a search warrant to enter your home. If you let them come in, then you have just lost your rights.

I thought animal control can come knocking on a door if there is a complaint. In california getting a dog a liecence only takes proof of the rabies shot and a small fee. They have to be strict because of the people who are animal hoarders. And the people who do not propperly take care of there pets. If the animals are being well cared for then there is no problem. :thumbup:

Animal control came to my house & checked if my Dobi was licensed. I think someone complained because he used to bark ALOT (Lex, R.I.P).
If your furbabies stay indoors, I think you'll be fine (since there's a limit of 3 dogs in W. Covina). I live in Temple City, don't know what the limit is here...

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.

I'm in Norhern CA and have never had nor seen animal control just show up at someones door to check on them. Usually around here the only way they show up is if someone called to complain.

I would think, with how things are going right now, they wouldn't be doing something to try to gain any more animals with the amount that has been going into shelters already.

About 20 years ago, when we didn't renew our dog's license with the city, someone came knocking on the door when no one was home to answer except for the dog himself. :p They had proceeded to slip into our mail a card warning us to renew the license within x period of time, or else. :rolleyes:

I doubt they came due to neighbourhood complaints though he used to do his howl whenever the last person has left the house. This generally lasted for the first 5-10 minutes.

About 5-8 years ago (can't remember exactly), someone had gone by my then boyfriend's family's place. His sister answered the door. He asked specifically for our dog who was originally registered to that address when we first got her and got a license from the city for a couple of years. After having not renewed for a couple of years after the last, I guess that's when they decided to make their rounds. I'm not sure if any attempts were made previously, but of course, there was never a dog around to "answer the door" when we weren't around because we never left her there when we weren't. This time around it definitely was NOT due to any sort of complaints. Our girl doesn't bark and scream and cry when left alone and there isn't a stinky yard for any one to complain about smells. We walked her and picked up after her. :) His sister said quite honestly to the person, "[insert pet name here] is no longer with us." That is the truth no matter what it had implied :p since we hadn't been staying there for at least 2 years at the time.

So it's not always for "animal control" or for "checking on humane living conditions"... in the end, a lot of times, it's all about the $_$.

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