Bad Dog Alert

For over a year, there have been dogs prowling in Biscayne Park.  The prior conclusion was that they were coming from a house several blocks from our northwest corner, down West Dixie.  We thought we had identified the home of the owners, who were not locking up their dogs at night.  We thought County and local police had fined the owners and persuaded them to control their dogs.  That's what we thought.

Now, and for the past few months or more, there is a pack of dogs patrolling the Park, and they occasionally find and dispatch an outdoor cat.  I'm not sure we know what dogs these are, and if they're the same ones from last time.

The dogs come out at night, as dogs are wont to do.  Few of us have seen them.  Our police have sometimes tried to track them, but these dogs are hard to corral.  The County's Animal Control division can't or won't help us.  No one is allowed to harm the dogs if the dogs aren't harming any people.

Apparently, someone has tried to set traps for these dogs, but the dogs are reportedly too smart to get themselves trapped.  There's a contraption called a "net gun," but we don't have one.  They cost $500.  The net gun fires a projectile, like a regular gun does, but the projectile is a net, and it traps the dog.

So there are a few things you can do at the moment.  First, if you have pets, keep them inside, especially at night.  Second, if you see anything, grab a camera, so we'll all know what you know, and we can try to identify the dogs.  Third, make sure the BP police have the picture you took.  And call the BP police if you see or hear anything.  After hours, call the non-emergency number, which is 305-476-5423 (4-POLICE).