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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would keep playing with my dog and let her call the police.  We have an open field near us where a lot of people play with their dogs.  One lady moved in across the street and hated dogs and started calling the police every time she saw a dog off leash in the lot.  They would come, sometimes, and vaguely ask us to put our dogs on a leash and then go away.  This went on for years and no one every got a ticket or in trouble in any way.  The police do not care about stuff like this and hate when people use threats of "calling the police" to settle spats between neighbors.

The lady in our case eventually got angry and called in that a dog was attacking someone.  When the police came and this wasn't the case they threatened to cite her for making a false report using 911.  She stopped calling and we all still play at the lot.

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You're lucky that this woman didn't know better and called the wrong people.  It's unfortunate that the police did not enforce the law as they are supposed to.  Even if they feel the law is wrong, they are supposed to uphold the law and ticket accordingly.  However, had the lady called animal control, then they would have had to have taken in any unleashed pet and you would have had to pay a fine to retrieve your pet from the pound (there was a thread several months back about a dog owner ranting about how inconvenient it was to retrieve their pet from the pound and she got no sympathy).  Some places charge as much as $250 to retrieve your pet or they'll euthanize.  This is the appropriate way to discourage people from willfully breaking the law.  If you want to own a dog and want to have that dog run free, you need to live near a dog park or other fenced facility or pay to fence in your yard.  It's part of the cost of owning a pet.  People like you are irresponsible pet owners.[/quote]

No. She did call animal control as well. They refused to come.  They will not come in response to an off leash dog when an owner is present unless the owner is abusing the animal or the animal has ALREADY harmed some one.  I know that there are people in this thread who don't think this is as it should be, but don't pretend that this isn't how the system actually works. The threats "I will call the police" or "I will call animal control" are empty threats since there are not a bunch of public employees waiting around for a call about an off leash dog ready to spring into action.

If your dog gets loose and runs away from home and is picked up by animal control, then you will have to go and pick up your pet and pay a fine.  Animal control is busy dealing with actual problems.  This kind of thing does not rise to the level of their interest. Talking to your neighbors is a much more productive route. [/quote]

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