update: dog biting issue..

Hey everybody, i wanted to give you an update on where our Association is on our recent dog biting issue. For those of you who have not read the previous discussion thread abut this subject, a homeowner was bit by a dog within our common area - and our Board members felt it was appropriate for us to become involved.

Here are some of outcomes so far...

- our Association has responded by increasing its knowledge of the dog rescue program; thereby likely increasing the number of dogs which are rescued. Because of this incident, i feel that more of our homeowners will consider becoming more involved in the dog rescue program.

- all our homeowners are becoming more aware of the herding behavior of some species of dogs and the proper way to train (or untrain, in this case).

- we now have much more visibility within our community about the poor wording of our DCC&R (regarding pets and dog biting issues). This subject will be assigned to our Covenant Committee so a more healthy approach to this issue can come about.

- because of all of your kind consideration (and excellent discussion here at HOALeader.com), we are encouraged about bringing all kinds of resources in to help us come up with a better way to approach this issue should another dog bite of this kind happen again.

- because of your kind involvement here on this discussion board, we are aware that we are not alone regarding this subject. We know that others of you are concerned about this same issue.

**SPECIAL NOTE TO TIM: Tim, we are aware that you are working on this subject and hope you will share your work with us.**

- and, of course, by doing the above, we want to make things better for our Board, such that we (and future boards) will not be put into this kind of difficult situation again.

Thanks to all of you (and to the HOALeader Discussion Board) for being a part of this!

oljim, in texas

Hi Jim-

You said a lot there, but what exactly are you doing again? Lol..

Rescue is wonderful- I'm heavily involved in it. But not sure what that has to do with anything? Please explain.

Regarding your other points, it's wonderful that this brought up a discussion on how to handle bites in your community.
But has any of it changed the outcome of the current situation?

Jim,

You know how much I rspect your gentlemanly behavior on this site, I just wonder how you think a biting rescue dog will prompt others into the dog rescue world.. Personally I would think it would have the opposite affect. I do admire how you tackled this issue for future dog bite issues. Hopefully it won't come up too often in your comunity.

When it comes to deed restrictions:

Fewer are better.

ESPECIALLY any restrictions which may pose liability upon the association.

eg. attempting to regulate dog behavior when a VOLUUME of public law is already in place

'poop' is another matter, albeit ALSO covered by existing legislation

ps. IMO, simply reference the existing actual law in the covenants as an association 'fining issue'