How can you stop a neighbor from making false complaints to animal control?

Answer 1

What are the complaints about? Your recourse depends on the severity of the complaints being lodged against and or your animals. Animal control is like the police in that they need to respond to certain types of complaints no matter what. You can file harrassment charges against them. Sometimes you just cannot win. I once had this older neighbor that started calling animal control on me because he saw my Irish Setter puppies out once and thought they were the ones coming on his property and killing his chickens, They were never out front without me yet he insisted they were the responsible dogs. At the first visit from animal control I was advised to keep my pups in the back yard. He could still see them at the gate so he called again when he had a chicken disappear. The second visit I was advised to chain them in the back away from the gate. One morning I awoke with animal control at the door advising me my puppies were out and they were being seized. I took them out back and showed them the chains where the dogs had been restrained, the chains were not broken and the collars were intact. Another neighbor reported that Mr. Old Fart had come into my back yard and unchained my dogs. This went on until I filed trespassing and harrassment complaints against Mr. Old Fart. Then one day my dogs disappeared. I called animal control and they did have them, Mr. Old Fart had them pennedin his yard and had them hauled off. I asked about his chickens which kept coming into my yard and eating my grass seed, they said I had a right to protect my "agriculture" and I had the right to kill the chickens. For the next week I killed 10 chickens with a pellet gun. He finally penned them up, 2 days later animal control come by to check on the welfare of my dogs and caught a Lab from up the street trotting away with a chicken in it's mouth. I guess the point is, you cannot do anything about a stubborn neighbor other than put the shoe on the other foot, and let them know how it feels.

Answer 2

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/4p1q5

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 3

In this fair land of ours, where the rich as well as the poor can be arrested for sleeping under bridges & stealing bread, you have very little Legal recourse. You can discuss this at length with a supervisor from animal control & possibly file a harrassment charge with the local courts but that's about the extent of your Legal recourse. You could always resort to 'other' measures, some extreme & some not, such as calling for their car to be towed to a repair shop far across town, every time they leave the house for a while or the old calling in an order for a dozen specialty pizzas every night to a different pizzeria, etc., etc., but barring those & a few other little, sneaky, underhanded tricks, you're really quite limited in what you can do to resolve the problem as I see it.

Answer 4

A neighbor has been doing this for years. We didn't know who it was but a few months ago found out. Her own next door neighbors know she is doing it as they did it to her. Animal Control was advised of her exact address and that she was the perpetrator of all these false reports. They did NOTHING and continue to harrass people every time she calls one in. It costs the county money in man-hours, gasoline, etc. every time they go on one of these wild goose chases but apparently they don't care. She verbally assaulted a friend of mine right in the street when he dropped by and even told HIM she was calling AC. How much more evidence do they need?

Answer 5

Explain to animal control what is happening. I've had this happen before too, the pool guy called them on our ancient (19 years old) and very frail cat. We simply told them she was old and sick and that all the other animals in the house were fine, healthy, and quite fat (well taken care of and loved!) and they were welcome to come by and check them all out if they wanted. Of course, I also mentioned that I was outraged and highly offended that someone would call. Then the pool guy was fired.

If you're not doing anything wrong, just explain it. The truth will set you free!

Answer 6

Animal control will eventually tire of these baseless complaints and stop listening to them.

You should also go down to animal control and explain the situation to them.

If they persists, you may want to file harrassment charges against them.

Answer 7

You can't.
But animal control can file for false reports on these neighbors if they continue reporting and the reports are false!

Answer 8

If they are in fact false complaints then you should file for a restraining order and you could investigate whether you can file a harrassment suit against them.

Answer 9

If they are false who cares, animal control will come out and look and not find anything and go on thier way.

Answer 10

If the animal you have is ferocious, purely permit ur animal loose in ur neigbours backyard, or domicile ;) thats it subject solved. And to be severe.... purely get some evidence or take suggestion from the community animal administration human beings approximately it. that is extra useful for you. so as that way they understand what you're doing whilst actual your neighbour is giving or making fake proceedings, so beforehand hand be with the animal administration human beings or one their edge :) proove them instruct em what u do and what u dont... thats it uncomplicated because it could get