Broken the skin and required treatment, the doctor is obligated by law to report the dog.
It is only going to get worse, get rid of the dog.
Yeah, a biter like that is a lawsuit waiting to happen. The really unpredictable part is that he bites if you wake him up suddenly. Most unfortunate.
Total agreement, but I think there is a moral obligation to not just drop the dog at the pound. Anyone who adopts this dog must know about his bad habits.
It would take a lot of courage, but I think I would put the dog down myself. I would not be happy about it, but I would know I had done the right thing.
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How’s your insurance? Are you sure it will cover you if he bites a kid? Your entire net worth is at risk.
It is even worse than you think, I am not a lawyer, but I have seen some pretty bizarre legal stuff go down, and this could turn into a nightmare in a heartbeat. The dogs are all kept in a common compound, and are tended by people related by blood or marriage, who all live in buildings on one parcel of real estate.
If the dog bites anyone, the one who is bitten will sue, and will want to confuse ownership enough so that you and your sister, plus spouses are all liable together for the behavior of this dog. This means there could be two or more insurance companies they want to make responsible for paying them. Since they can't sue insurance companies, they will sue both you and your sister, plus spouses, and anyone else they can think of.
On the other hand, your insurance companies will want to say that only one of you can possible own the dog, and that it might just be the person who spent the most time caring for the dog. On you and your sister's side the insurance companies will be fighting to make the other one liable.
This is not a good legal place for you and your sister to be. The dog must go.
“It is only going to get worse, get rid of the dog.
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We had to do it a year ago.
Broke my heart but it had to be done.
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