DANGEROUS DOGS

A problem for boards is deciding when a dog is dangerous. For purposes of defining a "vicious" or "dangerous" dog when drafting rules, boards should consider one of the following sample definitions:

1. Any dog that when unprovoked inflicts bites or attacks a human being or domestic animal or in a vicious or terrorizing manner approaches any person in apparent attitude of attack in the association's common areas; or

2.  Any dog with a known propensity, tendency or disposition to attack unprovoked, to cause injury or to otherwise endanger the safety of human beings or domestic animals; or

3.  Any dog which engages in, or is found to have been trained to engage in, exhibitions of dog fighting; or

4.  Any dog at large found to attack, menace, chase, display threatening or aggressive behavior or otherwise threaten or endanger the safety of any domestic animal or person.

Updated by ADAMS KESSLER 8/21/2007