Nuisance Dog definition

Nuisance Dog means any dog which, while off the dog owner's premises, in a dangerous, threatening, or terrorizing manner approaches a person with an apparent attitude of attack, or any dog while off the dog owner's premises which in a dangerous, threatening or terrorizing manner, pursues or harasses another animal without causing injury.

Nuisance Dog means a dog that "without provocation" and while off the premises of its owner, keeper, or harborer has chased or approached a person in either a "menacing fashion" or an apparent attitude of attack or has attempted to bite or otherwise endanger any person. It does not include a "police dog" that while being used to assist one or more law enforcement officers in the performance of official duties has chased or approached a person in either a menacing fashion or an apparent attitude of attack or has attempted to bite or otherwise endanger any person1 (see below for definitions of the terms in quotation marks).

Nuisance Dog means any dog that has been the subject of three or more Violation Tickets within any three year period for violations of any combination of section 4.4 and section 4.6 under this Bylaw

Examples of Nuisance Dog in a sentence

• Nuisance dog, $100.00 mandatory minimum fine, $200.00 for a second offense, and an increase of $100.00 for each subsequent offense with a maximum fine of $1,000.00.

• The required forms required to be adopted by Council are: Section 10B – Notice requiring companion animal to be registered Section 31(2) – Nuisance cat orderSection 32A(2) – Nuisance dog order Clause 30(1)(a) – Notification of death These forms require formal adoption by Council to satisfy the legal requirements of the Act.

• Nuisance dog barking (continuous barking, barking at passersby on the street or at neighbors) is prohibited.

• Nuisance dog – a dog that (i) by excessive barking or other disturbance, is a source of annoyance to a sick person residing in the vicinity; or (ii) by excessive barking, causing damage or other interference, a reasonable person would find such behavior disruptive to one’s quiet and peaceful enjoyment; or (iii) has threatened or attacked livestock, a domestic animal or a person, but such threat or attack was not a grossly disproportionate reaction under all the circumstances.

• No Owner shall willingly and knowingly permit a dog to be a Nuisance dog as defined herein.

More Definitions of Nuisance Dog

Nuisance Dog means a dog that without provocation and while off 59

Nuisance Dog means a dog that, without provocation and while off the premises of its owner, has chased or approached a person in either a menacing fashion or an apparent attitude of attack or has attempted to bite or otherwise endanger any person.

Nuisance Dog means a dog that, without provocation and while off the premises of its owner, has chased or approached a person in either a menacing fashion or an apparent attitude of attack or has attempted to bite or otherwise endanger any person. "Menacing fashion" means that a dog would cause any person being chased or approached to reasonably believe that the dog will cause physical injury to that person.

Nuisance Dog means any dog in respect of which there have been two or more convictions for offences under this bylaw.

Nuisance Dog means any dog that has been the subject of three or more convictions within the previous three years for any combination of the following offences under this bylaw: (i) section 10(1); (ii) section 11;

Nuisance Dog means loud, habitual and persistent barking, howling, yelping or whining by a dog, sufficient to interfere with any person in the reasonable and comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Nuisance dogs are deemed to be dogs that are not under control of their Owner.

Nuisance Dog means a dog or wolf hybrid that causes bodily injury, other than serious bodily injury, to an individual or a domesticated animal who is not trespassing on the dog or wolf hybrid owner's or keeper's premises at the time of the injury; a dog or wolf hybrid that causes a reasonable and prudent person who is not on the dog or wolf hybrid owner's or keeper's premises and is acting in a reasonable and nonaggressive manner to fear bodily injury, other than serious bodily injury, by assaulting or threatening to assault that individual or individual's domesticated animal; or a dog or wolf hybrid that causes damage to property or crops not owned by the dog or wolf hybrid owner or keeper while the dog or wolf hybrid is not on the owner's or keeper's premises.