Amount of dog complaints lodged with Christchurch City Council

Thousands of complaints were made to Christchurch City Council over dogs growling, disrupting traffic, attacking people, bulgaria and, in some circumstances, even secured wildlife over the space of a year.

Statistics released out of the city council this week show 7613 complaints were made in relation to dogs barking, wandering, fouling and being non listed during the previous financial year.

A further 578 “priority one” complaints were made to the city council which generally relate to dogs disrupting traffic and simply attacking either people, stock, chicken, domestic animals or protected creatures.

The city council similarly issued 1494 infringement notices when considering breaches against the Dog Control Underatking.

The city council began one prosecution resulting in a conviction about a dog owner, disqualifying them from obtaining a dog for four years. Individuals also 11 owners put on expérience.

The number of dangerous pets within the city also rose which will 60, with an additional eight puppies added to the dangerous dog buy.

The total number of cats recorded on the city council’s database rose to 40, 002 compared to 39, 127 the previous year.

– starnews. co. nz