Question about animal biting. Impound.

[Stanley Burrell]

I have a business acquaintance who has a dog that is trained for military duty.

Recently, this dog, while at home from across the globe, was in a public dog run and a stranger entered this marked dog run area; approached dog. Animal barked, stranger raised their arms, canine does gun disarm maneuver resulting in 2-3 inch abrasion.

Dog-bitten individual goes to hospital for tetanus shots, because skin was broken. Nowhere even close to being mauled. Later, tetanus shot "victim"'s spouse, who was previously outside of dog runs claims dog "hit them" as well. Dog "hitting her" is tetanus shot's spouse screaming like a crazy person after dog gets frisky; dog turns to fence border, slams into it, growling at psycho screamer -- This is "hit." Filed much, much later.

CT law mandates a minimum 14-day impound because the attacked individual had tetanus shots and filed a report. Dog obviously doesn't have tetanus and is bread to intimidate and serve with AF personal.

What are my associate's options as to how in the hell to get their pup freed ASAP? Needs animal for duty, probably sooner than whatever law is currently mandating a lock-up on the pooch for.

Great. Thanks.

[Kyra231]

I'd imagine your friend is fucked & will have to wait the 14 days. Most states/counties have laws requiring your animal to be under control & on a leash when out of the yard no matter what.

I had a client who's 16 y/o dashchund bit a kid who was tormenting him with a stick through the owners fence(the dog next door was in heat so the doxie was already worked up). Poor old bastard still had to be quarantined for 2 weeks to watch for possible rabies symptoms.

~K.

[Crazy Bard]

Umm can you buy these said dogs because I'd pay big bucks for a trained dog like that, after I got screwed with my current dog from hell.

[Sean of the Thread]

Had to impound/quarantine my cat after it bit the neighbor. It was for 10 days. They allowed us to quarantine it in her house actually.

Symptoms of rabies will show up in 10 days I guess in either animal or victim.

[Killer Kitten]

Your friend might be able to get the sentence reduced by producing veterinary records showing that the animal's rabies vaccination is - and always has been - up to date.

Your friend is getting off lucky with the quarantine. The person who had been bitten could have demanded the animal be euthanized and the head sent to the state lab to check for rabies. Local law enforcement usually doesn't comply with this kind of request, but if they didn't like your friend...

I hope the two weeks pass quickly for both of them.

[Stanley Burrell]

Your friend might be able to get the sentence reduced by producing veterinary records showing that the animal's rabies vaccination is - and always has been - up to date.

Passed this suggestion on. Apparently, the law is extremely inflexible at manipulating an earlier release. An upperclassmen of law enforcement explained a few logistics in order to calm my friend down a bit and explain the painfully obvious.

The idea of this particular dog being around any rabid animals is absurd. But CT has a particularly strict impound policy.

<<Umm can you buy these said dogs because I'd pay big bucks for a trained dog like that, after I got screwed with my current dog from hell.>>

If you've seen the way this individual trains animals, you'd be too afraid to file a report for animal cruelty. The dog has been in boot camp since day one. Real beautiful pup, too.