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