Animals Running at LargePosted Saturday, May 30, 2009, at 11:03 AM
Anteater running at large
Animals not Animal, more than one but not limited to more then two. Get this>>>> cat's and chickens are also included as Animals Running At Large. If your cat or chicken is running loose you can get a ticket because its unlawful in the city of Mountain Home. Yes cat's and chickens !! I know because several years ago I got a ticket and paid $68.00 fine. My cat Jumped a fence and went into my neighbors yard for about a minute. I got no warning from the Police Officer even thought I never heard a cat could not run loose in Mountain Home City.. Ignorance of the law is no excuse ! Read below its the ordinance that's on the animal shelters web site
ANIMALS OR POULTRY RUNNING AT LARGE PROHIBITED: It shall be unlawful for any animal or poultry to run at large in the city limits at any time. The owner, or any person in charge of said animals or poultry, shall be liable for all damages done by such animal or poultry. It shall be unlawful for any person to lead, herd or drive any animal through the streets of the city without having said animal under restraint; providing, that this chapter shall not prohibit stockmen from driving herds through the city when necessary to transfer them from one pasture to another or for the purpose of shipping, but stockmen so driving stock through the city shall be liable to property owners for all damage done by such stock while being so driven, and such stock shall be driven through the city in as short a time as possible. (Ord. 941, 9-22-1980, eff. 9-24-1980) What I don't understand is the part where it says "the owner shall be liable for all damages done by such animal or poultry". What if your animal didn't do any damage he just got loose? Like what happened to me. My cat got out my door, I tried to catch it, the cat was to quick for me and jumped over the backyard fence into my neighbors yard. That neighbor didn't like cat's and she was not a nice neighbor. The cat came right back over the fence and I put her in the house. This neighbor called the police and that's how I ended up with a ticket. I was truthful and said yes it was my cat, and there were many other cats roaming the neighborhood. I couldn't get the ticket dismissed (I tried) because the Police Officer who gave me the ticket wrote on it (admitted guilt) I think I am the only one who holds this ticket in Mountain Home. I have never heard of anyone else getting one. I think its a record, maybe I could be in the Guinness Book of Records. HA ! And guess what this was my first ticket ever and I got it after the age of 50. Now I am a Criminal! I wonder if I can get it erased HA ! Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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Careful there MsM or K9 will have you on America's Most Wanted for stealing something and they will post your picture...with the cat. Very sad that you got a ticket for that and are now a "criminal" (not really). It will go away after a while I think (a ticket like that should "drop off") but it will take a while. I do not like to see dogs that are loose...it breaks my heart. So...is the lady still next door to you? That could be interesting (and probably not in a good way). Thanks for your blog and the info! Have a great weekend.
No, you are not alone. Unfortunately for those of us who love our animals, Mountain Home is not a cat or dog friendly city. I received a ticket for my dogs barking even though my neighbor's dogs were also barking. He called the cops. I didn't. He was also not a nice neighbor...seems to be an epidemic... SO since he called the cops and I did not, I got the ticket and yes, I paid my $68 too. Seems to me there should be a fine for being a "bad" neighbor since some do not know what the word neighbor means.If you rent, the owners do not want the dogs in the home. If you put them outside, they bark, which is what dogs do, and you get a ticket. Not an animal friendly town at all.
It seems to be a lot of barking dog complaints in Mountain Home. Every time someone calls the police because of a barking dog they have to respond to the call...
Dogs do what dogs do..........They Bark !
Sadly now days people are having their dogs debarked because of landlord or neighbor issues which I think is cruel.
Debarked! How mean! That's like having your child muted because you don't want to hear them cry or whine or speak. GRRRRRR!!!!!
I have worked down town, I have seen quit a few cat's and dog's running free. Most dig out or get through the fence's and take off snooping around.
Dog's and cat's do what dog's and cat's do and some time's that cant be helped. That is no reason to give the owner's a ticket. This is one place where there are an awful lot of high costing fines around. Besides the animal fine's where dose all this money go and in whose pocket's. I don't hear anything about it helping the humane society with the license and tags for the cat's and dog's. That money should be put to some usefully place like finding homes and feeding the little ones in our pound. I for one live in the county and the owners of dogs do there best to keep them up, even with the chickens, cow's and horse's. I find that we try and find the owner's of such critters and not be so fast to call the cop's on the cow in my front yard and find the owner. If the lady knew where the cat came from couldn't she just pick up the phone and talk to you first about it before she jumped the gun and put you in a bind with a fine?
I do agree there are a few out there that have no compassion in their lives any more and its sad.
So sorry this happened to you, but your know the old saying "what goes around comes around" some day.
After I got my ticket we bought a house on the out skirts of town on an acre. We no longer have any problem with Nasty Neighbors. Funny thing we lived on a dead end street next to a huge open field. We lived there for 16 yrs in peace until they put in a new subdivision
My folks raised us to always be respectful of everyone's property. This meant unless it were open range you didn't allow your own animals to trespass.
We always enjoyed hearing one tale of my father's and ragged him unmercifully until he'd tell it. One morning he was heading out to work some cows at a neighbor's ranch and called "Blue", his favorite stock horse. Blue wasn't in the pasture, or anywhere else in sight.
Dad had once claimed he had plowed all of Arkansas and most of Oklahoma behind horses, but only because he'd had to! He considered the only fitting place for a young cowboy to be was on a good horse's back, so he called another of his horses in and saddled up.
He cut Blue's fresh trail where he'd turned onto the road and caught up with him as he was being chased out of a garden patch by a neighbor's blue-eyed young daughter with a broom. Dad said he rode right in giving her some serious apologies, and even offered her a dollar he'd been saving for the dance after the prayer meeting the next Sunday.
She held out for him weeding and cultivating the garden, and handed him a hoe, which was a letdown for a young cowboy who'd set out that morning to work some cattle. He said she must have taken a shine to the way he worked because she not only accepted his offer of a ride to the prayer meeting, she married him a few months later! So that's how Daddy met Mama.
Dogs running around is a big problem in our neighborhood. Yep, dogs bark, however, when a dog is barking nonstop for hours, that's a problem.
Our dogs bark at the dogs running around and when I am home to stop them, I do just that. At night, dogs howling and barking, that's a disturbance and it makes it very hard to get to sleep. Some bark ALL NIGHT LONG and it's as though the owners have sound proof homes and can't hear what is going on in their own yards.
Why get a pet if you are going to allow it to run around? I have seen beautiful animals laying dead on the side of the road. Cats are hard to control, they have staff, not masters. Dogs can and SHOULD be controlled, kept in a yard, secured in a yard and cared for properly.
Whether cats have staff, slaves, or masters someone certainly should be held responsible for all pets. I, too, have seen enough "kitty frisbees" in the road I know the great outdoors is no place for a domestic animal.
I will call and complain to the police if a neighbor's dog barks all night, but first I will go out in my yard and shout at the top of my lungs for about five minutes. That is usually adequate to wake my neighbors and impress them I am not happy with their pets.
I agree that in the city there should be some pet ettiquette surrounding when your pet barks and for how long. I was always careful not to let my dogs out before 7am and to bring them in when it became dark. If we let them back out before bed we stayed with them so if they did bark we told them to hush and brought them right back in. Even with this tactic, if you have an unkind neighbor who just wishes to be mean, he can call the cops and say the dogs bark too much and you will be fined. I still think there should be a fine for rude and hateful neighbors...
Kind or unkind, and rude and hateful is in the eyes of the beholder, isn't it? I have had babies, children, and adults in my home that were very ill. Combine that with more than thirty years of shift work and I'd say neighbor's pets have disturbed me and mine countless times.
I will assure you I will go to any lengths to ensure my pets will disturb no one for very long.
Barking dogs can be very annoying especially if your not feeling good or your trying to get some sleep. Barking from a distance doesn't bother me as much as barking in the yard next to me. In the past I have heard Puppy's barking and whining all night long and that disturbs me the most.
We took in an abused Chihuahua a few months ago, and when I let my other dogs out for their last potty run he won't go out. I think maybe he was one of those puppies who was left outside all night long.
My dogs are never in the yard unsupervised and don't stay out for more then 10 min unless someone is out with them and we have a 6 ft board fence.
Pet owners who let their dogs and cats run wild, let their dogs bark all the time, cats getting on neighbors vehicles, both kinds of pets who leave "DEPOSITS" in neighbors yards are RUDE AND HATEFUL NEIGHBORS. If the above mentioned neighbor's don't care about me, then I DON'T Care about them. A ticket and fine is one way for neighbors to get a RUDE AND HATEFUL NEIGHBOR'S attention.