#Local Government
Target:
Randwick Council Rangers/ Sheryl Davis
Region:
Australia

On Friday 6 January 2016 at about 6:30pm I went to Centenial Park as we do almost every day with my 4 Malamutes. We met with a friend and her dogs Odin (Malamute) , Loki (Germs Spitz) and Thor (Pug) and several other regular park visitors with their dogs french Bulldog, Staffy and some others...

At around 7:30 PM as we ready to go home, after more then an hour in the park ,I had Atka on the Lead with me, while talking to my friend with her dogs. Anouk and Sinaaq were still running in circles and playing around my immediate vicinity.

This lady whom we have previously seen approached us and started talking to us about the weather, while all our dogs are just a few meters from us, her dog followed her and Sinaaq and some other dogs approached her dog to greet him and sniff, as they always do with any other dogs.

At that point without any provocation or any signs of aggression or any bad intentions from my dogs on any of the other dogs, the lady owning the cavalier panicked and picked her dog up, and immediately started screaming repeatedly, uncontrollably and hysterically.

Although we were all trying to tell her to calm down and put her dog back down as there was nothing wrong and there was no reason to pick him up, she did not listen and kept screaming hysterically.

Due to her uncontrolled behaviour and the continuous loud screams the dogs that were around us started jumping up on her, (not just my dogs).
I approached very quickly to try and get my dogs away from her, and my friend got there to help getting the dogs away from her uncontrollable behaviour and screaming.

As the lady was lifting her dog up in the air and turning and tossing him from side to side, she lost her balance and fell to the ground. Sinaaq managed to get hold of her dog.

While we were trying to get the dogs away and calm her down very calmly , (my friend and I had Sinaaq by his harness. Within a few seconds we got Sinaaq to let go of her dog.

Sinaaq did not bite down or shook the dog as a typical aggressive dog would do. He held him in his mouth softly for a couple of seconds with his head pointing towards the ground as if he shielded the title King Charles Cavalier from the commotion with his own body.

All my 4 Malamutes were a couple of meters away from the scene within seconds and were calm, we were also trying to calm the lady down as she was still uncontrollably screaming and laying over her dog. My Friend and I managed to inspect the dog for visible injuries.
Her dog seamed to be frightened from the hysterical behaviour of his owner, and he did appear to have 2 minor and superficial scratches on his belly, which did not look like a dog bite, but more like scratches from human nails.

Several people who were on their way to the movies (Moonlight Cinema) in Centenial Park that evening, parked their car on Grand Drive between Loch Avenue and Hamilton Drive opposite to the public Toilets.
They were running towards us as they heard her screams from a distance, they pushed us away and took over in attempt to assist and calm her down.

However, they were quite offensively impolite to us and told us off. It appeared to them that we were the bad people as they have not been at the scene at the time of the incident and only arrived at the scene after it was all defused.

At that point we all stood back from them while these strangers were supposedly helping her and taking her back to her car with her dog.

A few days later, Council received a complaint from her with the allegation that my 3 dogs attacked her dog. As a result, Randwick Council imposed an intention to declare my dogs as Menacing Dogs and issued 3 fines of $550 for each dog.

Here are the results of the temperament tests for one of them.

Council has not heard my side of the story before imposing these fines and allegations and did not take any evidence or statement from me, or the witnesses that were in the park at the time, witnessing the whole incident with their own eyes.

1. Council did not follow due process

2. Randwick Council, revoke the intention of declaring My dogs menacing dogs and remove the fines imposed on 3 of my dogs. Council Ranger Sheryl Davis has not followed due process and has not had adequate evidence to proceed to fines and intentions, You imposed these fines and intentions based on one side story that is in question? and have not provided me with an opportunity to give me the courtesy to file my statement of evidence. No court of law in Australia will accept your allegations and actions.

3. I urge for people who know me and my 4 Malamutes to provide evidence to Randwick Council Rangers and a testimonial as to the characters of my Malamutes; Anouk-3YO, Sinaaq 22-month , Atka-19 month, and Takaani 4-month old.

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The Revoke Randwick council intention to declare my dogs meanacing dogs petition to Randwick Council Rangers/ Sheryl Davis was written by Ron Baruch and is in the category Local Government at GoPetition.

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