Harriette,
This is unacceptable and there is no excuse. The dog you own was off leash (at large in a public place) and has now bitten a person. This is no only against the law, it's dangerous. Saga HS will be investigating and gathering reports that we will take to the Police, SPTC and Magistrate in this matter. We will go to the Magistrate to seek fines, mandatory neuter and classification of your dog and any dog involved in this attack as vicious (biting a person). It will be up to the Magistrate if your dogs should be removed from your and your caretakers custody as you have not shown a willingness or ability to control or contain them on your property. This has gone on too long with your dogs terrorizing your neighbors and it will stop.

Coleen Creeden
Saga Humane Society, President

Power of magistrate to fine or order destruction of dogs.
-Whenever it appears to a magistrate on complaint being made to him under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, that a dog is vicious or savage, whether to animals or human beings, or likely to spread any disease or, by reason of its habit of persistent barking or for any other reason, is a nuisance, the magistrate may order the owner of the dog to keep it under proper control or in such a manner that it shall not be a nuisance, or may order the owner to destroy the dog.
• Every person who fails to comply with such order shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten dollars $10BZ for each day or part of a day during which the order has not been complied with.
o Prohibition on allowing dogs to be at large-
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, no owner of a dog shall permit that dog to be at large in any street or place of public resort in any town and any person who contravenes this section is guilty of an offence and is, on summary conviction, liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars $100BZ.
Power to seize dogs in certain cases.-
 That dog may be seized by any police officer or dog catcher and the owner of the dog shall in cases (a), (b) and (c) be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars: $25 BZ. Provided that a person shall not be convicted under paragraph (a) if he proves that no licence is required in respect of the dog.
• Whenever a dog is seen in a town, on a highway or in a place of public resort in any of the following cases-
(a)not having a collar with a licensing badge for the current year attached thereto; or
(b)Dogs appearing to be a stray or ownerless dog; or
(c)being a bitch in heat and being neither led nor carried; or
(d)suffering from any contagious disease and not being carried; or
(e)suffering from any disease or injury which causes pain to the dog and being neither led nor carried,




Coleen

Beach bum, butterfly stalker, native plant enthusiast.