Help! One of my resident's dog was killed by another resident's dog!

Help! One of my resident's dog was killed by another resident's dog. No prior lease violations; can I have this dog legally removed?

I believe you can ask the resident to get rid of his pet. Read your animal addendum carefully and always call your attorney.

Call your attorney!! I can not stress this enough....call your attorney!

Actually you can.

You can. Renters insurance also may cover vet bills.

Was he dog that was attacked on a leash?

No leash is required in the dog run.

the resident with the aggressive dog should be held responsible. People don’t have dogs like that and not know it. My dog is and I’d never allow him in a dog park.

Yes, but ask your animal control & law enforcement

So sorry this happened. I experienced this same situation a few months back. With the help of our attorney, we filed an immediate eviction and had the resident removed in less than a week. Since the dog was registered and up to date on it's rabies, animal control refused to remove the animal. The resident had the option to self quarantine the dog.

Contact the police also. The dog may have to be put into quarantine

Had this happen. Any damages are to be settled between the residents. 7-day to remove the dog. If that dog does it again and you didn’t take action you will have liability.

Thank you all for your help. Our attorney was contacted before I posted just wanted to get y'alls pulse. Such a horrible situation!

Make sure to get he resident who's pup passed away something nice for a remembrance.. something with a dog paw, or a look alike or something to show you care ..

This is a hard hard HARD situation and I wish you the best!!

Look at the lease. If it’s like Texas we have a separate pet addendum

Yes , it should say something in your pet addendum

Yes it’s a treat to residents and pets

As always, refer to the current lease for the resident with the attacking dog. Then an attorney, if necessary.

Yes you can. Good luck girl! Call if you need anything!!

Call animal control. They will come remove and quarantine the dog. If the dog is authorized then the rest is a cival matter between tenants.

Yes you can. 7 day notice to remove animal. Then if they dont comply you can 7 day to evict. (Florida) your state may be different.

Call the police and animal control! How awful!!!

Call animal control and tell them what happened. They will take care of it.

OMG! That's terrible! Definitely can have it removed

Shouldn’t it be the responsibility of the resident whose dog was killed to call the police and animal control.

A dog is an extension of the owner/resident. If a human attacked another person they would have to leave immediately, same goes for pets.

That's not necessarily true. It would need to be investigated because the one dog could've provoked the other other one. Again, this is a cival matter to be handled accordingly.

I had this situation occur long time back, a St Bernard picked up a Poodle in its mouth; luckily the Poodle survived. We took a petition for an emergency eviction to court and in essence evicted the dog--the pound came and carried it off (although the servicemen were pretty pale with fear I might add). I believe this will be governed by the laws of your state, but we found the Judge to be sympathetic to our plea. On a side note, we required the resident to give us a 30 day notice to vacate since they were off lease, which was also stipulated.