Every Dog's Legal Guide: A Must-have Book for Your Owner - Softcover

Mary Randolph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413307035 ISBN 13: 9781413307030

Publisher: Nolo, 2007

Synopsis

Everything you need to keep your pooch (or the neighbor's) on a legal leash! America's estimated 50 million dogs are governed by many things: The stomach, the nose and the law -- laws that you as a dog owner, or as the neighbor of a dog, need to know.Every Dog's Legal Guide is a newly revised, up-to-date practical guide to the legal issues that affect dogs, their owners and their neighbors every day, including: dog owners liability for injuries dogs that bite or create a nuisance animal cruelty landlords, tenants and dogs traveling with dogs providing for pets at death dealing with veterinarians your rights when buying or selling a dog restrictions on dangerous dogs vaccinations, licenses and other local laws guide, signal, service and therapy dogs The latest edition of Every Dog's Legal Guide is completely updated with the latest laws of your state that affect your canine and includes new rules regarding service dogs in the workplace and for providing for dogs in trusts.

About this title

About the Author

Mary Randolph earned her law degree from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the author of The Executor's Guide, 8 Ways to Avoid Probate, and Deeds for California Real Estate. She has been a guest on The Today Show and has been interviewed by many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.

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Chapter 1:

Dog Law

Introduction

First as scavengers, later as companions, servants, and protectors, dogs have been with us a long, long time. But the fate of dogs in the crowded modern world is uncertain. Dogs fit easily into past human societies based on hunting and gathering, and later on agriculture, but less room is left for them in today's cities. Forty percent of U.S. households have at least one dog, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association. But dogs are now outnumbered by cats. Writer Cullen Murphy summed up, only half-facetiously, the broader implications of this shift:

Consider an America congenial to the dog: it was a place of nuclear or extended families, of someone always home, of children (or pets) looked after during the day by a parent (or owner), of open spaces and family farms, of sticks and leftovers, of expansiveness and looking outward and being outside....Consider an America conducive to the cat: it is a place of working men and women with not much time, of crowded cities, of apartment buildings with restrictive clauses, of day-care and take-out food, of self-absorption and modest horizons.

Increasing intolerance for dogs is shown in more and more laws, which regulate when dogs must be confined, where their owners may take them, and even how many may live in a house. But before getting into the legal rules, here's a brief look back at the shared history of people and dogs, and how they've come to play such a ubiquitous role in our society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nolo
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1413307035
• ISBN 13: 9781413307030
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 336