Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Pet policy

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

So:  If your community allows a member's dog to run free, and said free-running 
dog rips the throat out of one of your visitors, the community shares in the 
liability.  But ...

What if your community is totally silent on dogs?  That is, you neither allow 
nor prohibit any specific actions re dogs, cats, birds, snakes, whatever.  It 
has never even occurred to you discuss the matter.  Are you then still liable?

RPD

On Apr 24, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Sharon Villines wrote:

> In DC we discovered that if we allowed a homeowner to have their dog "not 
> within their immediate" control and the dog caused harm, the whole community 
> was liable because we were in violation of the DC laws.