Dog Ownership Threat in Connecticut? - Page 1

New Animal Protection Bill has been passed that allows an animal control officer or police officer to take a dog without a warrant if he/she "witnesses" the animal being abused/neglected (or in "imminent danger" of being abused/neglected.) The owner would need to go to court to have the animal returned.

Does anyone know more about this?

Could this possibly come down to an officer's word against a dog owner's if they can arbitrarily take dogs without a third party getting involved?

We have had local police making small talk with us when they see us with our dogs. But it takes on a new meaning when you figure in the green-eyed monster and you have a police department where they take advantage of their authority to do as they please.

I just heard of a police officer telling someone with a service K-9 (in reference to the dog he was admiring) "I know where to get him now." Taking someone's service dog is like taking their wheel chair. That would be a pretty low thing to do should it happen!

It would be lovely if the world were such an ideal place in which no person or animal was ever abused, and if the police never abused their authority. Checks and balances are put in place for a reason.  
 

I think the Police have better things to do than collect people's dogs without a valid reason.

Not in Stamford, CT lol well unless you mean chilling by dunki donuts lol hahahaha

Kandi
are you a democrat?

I am not a democrat....LOL! Nor a republican!!

Like so many laws that get passed.... good intentions can be twisted and used in ways nobody ever dreamed of.  I can very definately see issues in towns where there's a conflict with neighbors over someone having dogs, where the neighbor is well connected politically and the Dog Warden seizes their dogs and forces them to prove they're NOT abusing them...

Kind of like that old joke....    "So............ have you stopped beating your wife yet??"    you're screwed whether you say yes or no...

The problem with this is: What constitutes abuse?  Beating a dog?  Starving it?  Chaining it out in the yard with no shelter?  Or is training it using a prong collar, or slip collar?  Denying it treats?  Feeding it too much?  If you ask a hundred different people for their opinions, you'll get a hundred different opinions, and therefore, it is impossible to imbue a police officer with the authority to seize a dog based on his personal opinions. 

I've known people who believed that to expect even a common courtesy like not jumping up, to be abuse, and I've known of a particularly mean drunk whose idea of dog training involved wielding a piece of firewood against his dog.  The latter I consider abuse, but the former is abuse of a different sort.  

There are already laws in every state that provide for remedies against dog owners who don't provide needed medical care, or proper housing, or contain their dogs. 

If indeed this law has been passed, then it is insane, as it is redundant.  The burden of providing proof would fall to the state, and if there were a rash of good dogs being seized for abuse, it seems to me that the law would end up being challenged.

The way that politicians vie for more new laws every time they are in session...tells me that they really need to get a job and a life.  There is not nearly enough money to enforce the laws they already have.  There will never be enough for any others, especially not when you consider that as long as America farms out its labor to third world countries, and keeps fighting with the rest of the world instead of concentrating on its own troubles.

Crys

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 ~ "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

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