Originally posted by Sevens
Animal Control would not do anything about it. They would say he has food, water, & shelter and that is all that the law requires.
I know where you are coming from here. A few weeks ago I called Animal Control on a neighbor's dog that spends 24/7 chained up outside, barking incessantly. I couldn't really blame it for barking all the time, it had nothing else to do, got no attention whatsoever. I couldn't really see it well because of a privacy fence around the yard between us, but I went ahead and called Animal Control, telling them the situation. The officer said she would go and see if it had shelter and food/water, and that she would tell them they couldn't just leave it to bark all the time, but other than that there was not much she could do. The barking is much less now though sometimes I still hear it. I hope and pray they are taking it in some now but I can't be sure. I had hoped they would just find it a new home when they learned they were getting reported to Animal Control.

It is very frustrating, and in your situation frightening too. Like the Animal Control officer told me on the phone, some people just have no reason to have a dog.

"They are too big to be in the house"...was what I was told by the neighbor.
This would make me angry too, and it is BS in my opinion. In fact mature big dogs often lay around more in a house more than small dogs do! With that reasoning, how about kicking some people out of the house for being "too big."