Connecticut dog Law - Page 1

Any one has an idea what the law in connecticut states to weather my dog needs to be on a leash while on my property? It's not fenced in.

According to what I been able to find it states that it dose not, but it has to remain under my control and not venture into other people property. Is that correct? Thanks for your help.

If he's on your property, he doesn't have to be leashed, but you do need control. For instance if a florist comes to deliver flowers to your house and ends up getting bit, you do have a legal issue and can be sued and will probably lose. This happened to someone I know. Make sure you have a good home owners policy just in case.

I am not worrying about it, as I keep my dogs 90% of the time in the run, and as soon as I see car coming, or any human except my family I either put the dog on a leash or in the run. People leaving around me are mayor pain in the ass, they never like as and since we moved in we had, building department, health department, police department coming through as they tend to call who ever they can to make our life harder, now they have an issue with the idea that I owe 2 GSD's and not lab's lol so I am excpecting visit from Animial control lol.

And I know I am liable if my dogs bites any one, but that would include any place weather your dog is on leash or not ;). To be honest I seen more people getting bite by dogs on leash than dogs of leash lol ;)

With a different dog and a pain-in-the-ass neighbor, I got to know the Animal control officer pretty well. My neighbor even set a camera up to watch me! I made a point to scratch my nose with my middle finger every chance I got. In the end, if there is no valid complaint, they can be the one's in trouble for wasting the Officers time, I forget the exact legal wording for it, but there will come a point in time that their actions will be deemed malicious.

I think the word is harrasment ;) lol. Well I will try to keep my cool. Just proves that it is not worth it to be nice to your neighbor.

Yes, keep your cool, and if you know of any hidden motives on their part, do let them slip. Like, have they mentioned to you any thing like, "You can solve this problem by putting up a fence, you know..."

Have you checked into the county, city and or township ordinances? Sometimes they are more strict the state laws.

sometimes "passive aggression" gets the point across, to leave you alone and mind your own business.  Not dogs, but I made my point pretty clearly in one instance - my mother lives in an end townhome, next to a large house - she has room for two cars to be parked in front of her house (just barely) - and they have driveway, 2 car garage, and room for two cars in front.  They have multiple cars, and the neighbor always parked his large, old, rusty, dirty pickup truck in front of mom's house - every day, that's where he parked it.  She asked him to park in front of his house - many times.  He would tell her the curb parking is "public" so  he could park whereever he wanted to.  ok dokey.  So I loaded up my old pickup truck with nice wet smelly horse and dog manure, drove it over there and parked it directly in front of his house, left it there for a week.   He told my mom to move the truck and she shrugged and told him it was her daughter's truck, when I got back from out of town I would move it.  Public property, she told me I could park "anywhere near my house" and so I did.  Oops, sorry she parked and locked that truck right in front of his house, because his truck was in front of her house, no room to park it there!  Message was very clear - and it's been a year now and he hasn't parked his truck in front of mom's house again.

molly