So Bloody Angry!

[superminty]

A lot of people have advised reporting incidents like these to council (and I agree). I do have a question though.

How much information would a council generally need to log an incident or follow it up?

In this case, the OP knows the address, so I assume that would be sufficient.

What about the case where you don't know the person's name or where they live? i.e. a little drama I had recently - I know the woman lives in my immediate neighbourhood and I can give a good description of her dogs, including a name, but I've got nothing else. The same sort of situation would arise if you were rushed in a park - you probably wouldn't get the person's name or address, nor would they be likely to give it to you anyway!

Is it even worth reporting it?

Edited December 9, 2010 by superminty

[corvus]

I can't seem to walk my dogs anywhere without being approached my dogs offlead.

That's exactly why I socialised the heck out of my boys when they were puppies. They don't care if they get rushed as long as the dogs aren't going to kill them. Takes a lot of the anxiety out of getting them out of the yard.

not the point, you should be able to walk your dog along a foot path without being rushed. Mine ar enice socialble dogs as well but being rushed by 5 offlead dogs would intimidate me let alone the dogs. And you have no way of knowing if you or your dogs are about to be bitten.

"Should", yes, "can", no. I prefer to deal with reality myself.

There certainly are ways of knowing if you or your dogs are likely to be bitten. My dogs seem to know. I watch dogs a lot at the park and beach. I learnt it's not necessary to panic every time. You get a feel for what's a worry and what's not.

I'm very wary of getting into neighbourhood arguments about these things. I'd like to be reasonably confident my dogs will be safe in their yard and pissing off residents in my street is not conducive to that confidence IMO. Some people are really weird.