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Just read your transcript, and like Atticus I do not see how it helps your claim.
One party insists the dog caused the cats demise, the other party asks for proof it was their dog and suggests in any case a third party may have let the dog out.
Your probably right. But, let’s say a delivery driver opens a gate (looking for somewhere to leave a parcel, but not a prior suggested to him to open gate) and a dog escapes and causes a car accident. Does the liability then rest fully with the delivery driver or does some rest with the dog owner for not having any warning notices and a gate that could be opened by anyone from the outside? Seems a bit harsh if it all falls on the driver?
Good luck anyway if you continue with your action.
Thanks. May as well do a LBC and see what comes back
Not without sympathy for you but:
My wife (as a past breeder of cats) wonders why people allow their feline friends to wander and risk the hazards of roads, kidnap and dogs.
He'd been an outdoor cat for 10 years before he acquired us, didn't seem right to the lock him up
As dog owners we wonder about the responsibility of people who allow their dogs to be in situations where third parties can easily (inadvertently) allow the dog to escape or be stolen. (and I speak as someone who had a dog stolen [the white one in my avatar] from a locked enclosure with an 8' fence)
Sorry to hear that. One of my neighbours with dogs has removed his back gate entirely and removes a fence panel if he needs access, seems a little extreme to me but perhaps not given your experience.
One party insists the dog caused the cats demise, the other party asks for proof it was their dog and suggests in any case a third party may have let the dog out.
Your probably right. But, let’s say a delivery driver opens a gate (looking for somewhere to leave a parcel, but not a prior suggested to him to open gate) and a dog escapes and causes a car accident. Does the liability then rest fully with the delivery driver or does some rest with the dog owner for not having any warning notices and a gate that could be opened by anyone from the outside? Seems a bit harsh if it all falls on the driver?
Good luck anyway if you continue with your action.
Thanks. May as well do a LBC and see what comes back
Not without sympathy for you but:
My wife (as a past breeder of cats) wonders why people allow their feline friends to wander and risk the hazards of roads, kidnap and dogs.
He'd been an outdoor cat for 10 years before he acquired us, didn't seem right to the lock him up
As dog owners we wonder about the responsibility of people who allow their dogs to be in situations where third parties can easily (inadvertently) allow the dog to escape or be stolen. (and I speak as someone who had a dog stolen [the white one in my avatar] from a locked enclosure with an 8' fence)
Sorry to hear that. One of my neighbours with dogs has removed his back gate entirely and removes a fence panel if he needs access, seems a little extreme to me but perhaps not given your experience.
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