| Have your kid been pleading you for a pet dog? | | | | important. If you are in the state of California, you will |
| Before deciding on this matter, see the situation of | | | | be covered by the California Penal Codes sections |
| your family and household first. Your kid might be | | | | 370-373a. It stipulates that a dog owner could be liable |
| ready to have a four-footed playmate, but is she or he | | | | for a crime "for allowing their dog to become a public |
| ready of the responsibility it entails? | | | | nuisance. |
| Make considerable assessments of your situations | | | | According to the mentioned sections of the California |
| first. Alike many other important decisions in the family, | | | | Penal Code, anything, which can be detrimental and |
| deciding on adopting a dog must be made carefully. | | | | interfere with the comfort and enjoyment of life and |
| Having a dog to adopt in the household is a vital | | | | property in the community or neighborhood, is |
| commitment. This serious responsibility may continue | | | | considered as public nuisance. |
| for quite a long time, several years, to be a bit exact. | | | | Several emphasis and considerations are given in the |
| Aside from choosing on a dog breed to adopt, | | | | other preceding sections in order to properly term and |
| introducing it into your home and learning how to take | | | | recognize public nuisance and the person who |
| care of it properly, you must also train and discipline | | | | commits it. |
| them. | | | | For dog owners, it is important to know about section |
| Training is a significant element in raising a healthy and | | | | 373a which is: |
| happy dog. Here are several things that the dog needs | | | | "Every person who maintains, permits, or allows a |
| to be disciplined or trained at doing: | | | | public nuisance to exist upon his or her property or |
| - Being housebroken - this is a foremost concern, as | | | | premises, and every person occupying or leasing the |
| soon as you have introduced your puppy in its new | | | | property or premises of another who maintains, |
| home. Its urinating and defecating habits must be | | | | permits or allows a public nuisance to exist thereon, |
| established by laying newspapers flat out on a small | | | | after reasonable notice in writing from a health officer |
| area, the foyer, for example. | | | | or district attorney or city attorney or prosecuting |
| - Understanding and obeying commands - during its 6 - | | | | attorney to remove, discontinue or abate the same |
| 8 month, most puppies could already be started into | | | | has been served upon such person, is guilty of a |
| obedience lessons. Commands in basic obedience | | | | misdemeanor, and shall be punished accordingly; and |
| lessons are sit, stay, heel, come, and down. | | | | the existence of such nuisance for each and every |
| - Walking on a leash | | | | day after the service of such notice shall be deemed |
| Training your dog is one way of disallowing your dog | | | | a separate and distinct offense, and it is hereby made |
| into being considered as a "Public Nuisance" or even | | | | the duty of the district attorney, or the city attorney of |
| menace. It is true that most dogs are even-tempered, | | | | any city the charter of which imposes the duty upon |
| but if it has not been properly trained, then it could | | | | the city attorney to prosecute state misdemeanors, to |
| cause serious repercussions. Your dog might very well | | | | prosecute all persons guilty of violating this section by |
| bite someone with the least provocation. | | | | continuous prosecutions until the nuisance is abated |
| Disallowing your dog on becoming a public nuisance is | | | | and removed. |