DogGate

Need_a_name

In addition to the questions raised in the previous post, Was the gate specifically mentioned in the tenancy agreement/access to a secure outside space?

mchale

Comms69 wrote: »

Shouldn't because the law, or shouldn't because you think so?


Because there's no law on this matter

Afraid the is https://www.gov.uk/control-dog-public

KatrinaWaves

mchale wrote: »

Afraid the is https://www.gov.uk/control-dog-public

You missed out the super important word of dangerously when you read that.

It is not an offence to have a dog loose in a shared garden. If the dog was biting everybody it came across then yes, but that law says nothing about non dangerous dogs!

marc3

thanks for replies -varied and interesting views.
raised a few new points for me to consider.

as someone posts-childish behaviour by both tenants-were friends and now trying to get respective landlords involved ,where i think its a civil dispute and not really a landlord issue .
the criminal damage post is dramatic,but argyuably correct.

that all given -the baby gate at bottom of stairs seems a resolution to me-as whist )unusually ) we gave permission for tenant to have a dog-it was to be 'controlled'-and i suggest that allowing it unattended in rear garden/shared driveway is not controlled.
whilst i think other tenant behaved badly-i do not have much sympathy for our tenant either .
all a bit pathetic really

mchale

KatrinaWaves wrote: »

You missed out the super important word of dangerously when you read that.

It is not an offence to have a dog loose in a shared garden. If the dog was biting everybody it came across then yes, but that law says nothing about non dangerous dogs!

"Your dog is considered dangerously out of control if it:

injures someone
makes someone worried that it might injure them"

I think that statement covers it all

elsien

More specifically, there needs to be a reasonable apprehension that the dog may injure them.
If the tenant's dog is snoozing in the yard when the other person goes past they'd have a job convincing anyone there was reasonable apprehension.
As always, context is everything.

KatrinaWaves

mchale wrote: »

"Your dog is considered dangerously out of control if it:

injures someone
makes someone worried that it might injure them"

I think that statement covers it all

No it does not ‘cover it all’ it covers a very specific instance! There is no indication anywhere that anyone is frightened that the dog is going to hurt them so they took away a fence.

There had to be an actual reason for the ‘worry’ not just seeing a dog...