'Nuisance' Dog Owner Responds with Letter

Stating that she "could find others in the neighborhood who would dispute [the allegations] but we shall forgo that path and comply," the wife of Michael Dyer, the dog owner accused of allowing his dogs to run loose and "defecate and urinate throughout the neighborhood," wrote to the Board of Selectmen in a letter dated April 17.

Bob Doherty, a resident in the same neighborhood, and three other neighbors appeared at the Selectmen's meeting on April 3, to voice their concerns about the dogs. Doherty told the Selectmen that the dogs often ran free through the neighborhood and did their business without it being picked up

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Animal Control Officer Keith Tosi was also in attendance that night and spoke before the Board, telling them "this has been a chronic problem. The dogs aren't vicious; they're just a nuisance."

In the letter, Dyer did want to defend herself and her husband on a couple of things, including mentioning that a call was made to Officer Tosi on a weekend when they were out of town with their dogs.

"There are also other dogs who bark incessantly and defecate in the street (our dogs do not) and those situations are all lumped into our responsibility," Dyer continued. "The installation of an invisible fence on April 25 should rectify this situation."