Barking Dogs Frustrating Temple Street Residents
Have an animal problem? Call Boston Animal Control. The following information is from the Boston Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Boston Animal Control had already removed one dog from a Temple Street residence to conform to Boston Housing Authority rules, but residents were still frustrated by two more barking dogs at the location.
A Boston Police officer was sent to 40 Temple St., to meet a resident complaining about the barking dogs of his deaf neighbor on Feb. 5. The apartments are Boston Housing Authority-run (BHA) and the resident told police that BHA rules state you can not have more than two dogs and they must weigh less than 30 lbs. The resident told police that dogs had been barking since 8:45 a.m., and it just after 10 a.m. at the point, according to a Boston Police report.
An officer with prior knowledge of the situation said Boston Animal Control had come on Jan. 20 and removed one dog, making it two in the apartment. The resident complained that it's unfair to residents to constantly hear barking dogs.
The resident was advised to document further problems and contact the president of the tenants task force who lives on Temple Street, too. The president of the tenants task force was also already aware of the situation, according to an officer.
Have you heard these dogs barking on Temple Street? Are they a nuisance to the neighborhood? Leave your comments below.
John
1:10 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
i would be upset too if i was unable to sleep-in, in my tax funded apartment. its a weekday, why the hell should i be up.
Kate
8:53 am on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Was it really necessary for you to make such a mean-spirited comment? Barking dogs can really disrupt a neighborhood. They bother me during the day & I'm neither sleeping nor in a tax-funded apartment.
Not that it matters, but isn't that apartment complex one for seniors?